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United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives

United Church of Canada. Board of Home Missions

  • SCAA-UCCS-0222
  • Corporate body
  • 1926–1972

The Board of Home Missions, constituted in 1926, was responsible for supervising and administering all the mission work of the United Church in Canada. This encompassed working among Indigenous peoples, French Canadians, immigrants, and ethno-cultural communities; maintaining missions in marine, urban, and rural areas; overseeing chaplaincies and student charges; supporting church extension in new communities; running institutions including inner city missions, youth centres, children's homes, All Peoples' Missions, hospitals, and schools; and undertaking other forms of community and social service work. This Board was incorporated into the new Division of Mission in Canada in 1972.

Camp Tapawingo

  • SCAA-UCCS-0177
  • Corporate body
  • 1948–

Camp McKay

  • SCAA-UCCS-0175
  • Corporate body
  • 1954–2007?

United Church of Canada. Board of Christian Education

  • SCAA-UCCS-0221
  • Corporate body
  • 1932–1972

The Board of Christian Education was established in 1932, with the amalgamation of the former Boards of Education, with responsibility for colleges and secondary schools, and the former Board of Religious Education, with responsibility for leadership in children's, youth and adult work within and outside of the Church. The Board was responsible for the entire educational programme of the Church, in schools, churches and the home. In 1942, the Board's responsibility for the theological colleges and secondary schools of the Church was transferred to the new Board of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The Board of Christian Education was originally structured around Departments for children, youth, young people and adults, and functional committees for administration of leadership training, field administration, curriculum and interdenominational work in Christian education. The Board was headed by a Secretary with two Associate Secretaries and several men and women appointed to operate specific activities such as boys' work and girls' work.

The Board was reorganized and added to the Division of Congregational Life and Work upon its establishment in 1964; many of the standing committees were discontinued and in their place staff sections were developed, one for each age group (children, youth, young people, adults) with an Associate Secretary in charge of each section. The Department of Sunday School Publications, late of the Board of Publication, was incorporated into its various programme areas. The Board had responsibility for the New Curriculum, the numerous children's and youth groups within the Church as well as for providing classes and assistance for adults. In 1972 the Board was made a part of the new Division of Mission in Canada.

United Church Young Peoples' Union (Y.P.U.), Saskatchewan Conference

  • SCAA-UCCS-0215
  • Corporate body
  • ca.1935–1965

The Young People's Union (Y.P.U.) of the United Church and its Conference-level units were organized around 1935, following the recommendation of the Interprovincial Young People's Council (1934). Saskatchewan Conference's Y.P.U. appears to have been formed sometime after the first National Y.P.U. Council, in mid-1935.

In 1965, the United Church Y.P.U. and its constituent Conference- and Presbytery-level groups appear to have been reorganized to form units of Kairos.

United Church Woman’s Association (W.A.), Saskatchewan Conference

  • SCAA-UCCS-0141
  • Corporate body
  • ca.1950–1962

The United Church Woman's Association (W.A.) in Saskatchewan appears to have been formed by the 1950s, or possibly earlier. It primarily operated in local and presbytery-level units before the organization of the national-level Dominion Council of the Woman's Association, in 1940. Efforts of the W.A. generally supported the local church and community, while other organizations focused on education and world mission programs.

In 1962, United Church W.M.S. and W.A. organizations across the country amalgamated to form the United Church Women (U.C.W.). Presbyterial and local groups developed along similar lines to national bodies, becoming local and presbyterial U.C.W. units in January 1962.

United Church of Canada. Women's Missionary Society (W.M.S.)

  • SCAA-UCCS-0550
  • Corporate body
  • 1926–1962

The United Church of Canada was created in 1925, from the union of Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregationalist and Local Union churches. The women’s organizations from the uniting denominations at the time included: the Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions (mostly in eastern Canada, since 1886); the Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (founded 1876); the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Eastern Division (founded 1825) and Western Division (founded 1876); along with their various corresponding regional and local units. Soon after union, these became national, regional and local units of the United Church of Canada Woman’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.).

The new Society had its first annual meeting in 1926. Like the earlier societies, it brought the message of missions before the entire community of the Church, while offering financial support and personnel to its own wide mission programme.

In 1962, United Church W.M.S. and W.A. organizations across the country amalgamated to form the United Church Women (U.C.W.). Presbyterial and local groups developed along similar lines to national bodies, becoming local and presbyterial U.C.W. units in January 1962.

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