George Ernest Bott was born on a farm near Blackwater, Ontario in 1892.
He attended Pinedale Public School and Port Perry High School before attending the University of Toronto where he studied Divinity at Victoria College. Through his study, he was ordained as a Minister of the Methodist Church in 1921.
After graduation, he travelled to Japan where he worked as a missionary devoting much of his time to social service in the slums of Tokyo and Kofu.
His work in Japan was briefly interrupted twice. First, as he undertook graduate study at the London School of Economics earning a doctoral degree. Then, with the outbreak of war in 1942, Bott returned briefly to Canada. After the war, in 1946, Dr. Bott worked in concert with the Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia and became a field director of Church World Service in Japan, representing the United Church of Canada Board of Overseas Missions. Over the course of his life, Bott served 31 years in Japan as a missionary.
The Japanese expressed their appreciation for Bott’s work by granting him an audience with the Emperor, by passing a parliamentary vote of thanks and by building an orphanage in his name.
Bott remained working in Japan until his untimely death on March 5, 1952.
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