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Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East-Bolton, Quebec, Canada, the eldest of the Reverend Joseph Elisha Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme Fessenden's four children.
Joseph Fessenden was a priest of the Church of England in Canada, and through the years the family moved to a number of postings within the Province of Ontario.
In 1877, at the age of eleven, he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario for two years.
At the age of fourteen, Bishop's College School in Lennoxville, Quebec granted Fessenden a mathematics mastership.
At this time, Bishop's College School was a feeder school of Bishop's University and shared the same campus and buildings.
Thus, while Fessenden was only a teenager, he was teaching mathematics to the young children at the school while simultaneously studying with the older students at Bishop's University.
At the age of eighteen, Fessenden left Bishop's without having been awarded a degree, even though he had " done substantially all the work necessary.
" ( This lack of a degree may have hurt Fessenden's employment opportunities ; when McGill University established an electrical engineering department, Fessenden was turned down on an application to be the chairman, in favor of an American.
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