The first foreign missionary to arrive in the Tamsui area was the Rev. George Mackay, who took a Chinese wife, and spent his whole life working with the Chinese in Taiwan.
馬偕博士是第一位到達台灣北部的外國傳道人，他把一生奉獻在他所熱愛的土地上，他娶了中國婦女為妻，他的墳墓埋在淡江中學校園之內。