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United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives

Cut Knife Pastoral Charge

  • SCAA-UCCS-0450
  • Corporate body
  • 1925–

Cut Knife Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, part of Wilkie Presbytery and containing only the Cut Knife preaching point. Points at Wilbert and Wardenville were also included by 1926. After Rockhaven and Baldwinton points were added, and the name shifted to Cut Knife - Baldwinton - Rockhaven Pastoral Charge, then Cut Knife - Rockhaven Pastoral Charge, until Rockhaven closed, February 1991. The name was later Cut Knife - Baldwinton Pastoral Charge, until Baldwinton closed, January 1998, and the name reverted back to Cut Knife Pastoral Charge.

Czendes, Emerick

  • SCAA-UCCS-0078
  • Person
  • 1886–1958

Emerick Csendes was a missionary and later United Church minister in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He was born in Transylvania, southeast Hungary, in October 1886. From 1914-1919, he served in the army and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1924, Csendes left to become a missionary in Western Canada. He worked with Hungarian congregations in Manitoba and Saskatchewan – at Bekevar and Otthon – and studied at St. Andrew’s College (Saskatoon), from 1925 to 1928. He served in Winnipeg from 1929 until 1934, when he transferred to the Rothermere Mission field (Battleford Presbytery). In 1940, he returned to Otthon-Halmok Patoral Charge (Yorkton Presbytery), where he remained until 1951, when he transferred to Toronto’s Church of All Nations. He retired around 1956.

Davidson-Girvin Pastoral Charge

  • SCAA-UCCS-0451
  • Corporate body
  • 1925–

Davidson Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, part of Regina Presbytery. By 1951, preaching points included Davidson, Campbell and Girvin. (Girvin and Campbell school had previously been part of Girvin Pastoral Charge, from 1925.) The name changed to Davidson-Girvin Pastoral Charge around 1993.

Day, David C.

  • SCAA-UCCS-0291
  • Person
  • 1869–1948

Delisle Pastoral Charge

  • SCAA-UCCS-0452
  • Corporate body
  • 1925–

Delisle Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925, as a new United Church charge, part of Saskatoon Presbytery, with appointments at Delisle and Birdview. By 1940, the charge consisted of Delisle, Donavon and Laura and, by 1962, Vanscoy had also been added. On January 1, 2013, the Delisle and Vanscoy congregations amalgamated and the charge was re-named Delisle-Vanscoy Pastoral Charge.

Dickin, Joyce

  • SCAA-UCCS-0292
  • Person
  • 1918–1993

Margaret Joyce Dickin was born in Beulah, Manitoba in 1918. She graduated from the United Church Training School in Toronto in 1950 and pursued Sunday School work in Toronto, then the Saskatchewan Conference, and then in Regina. She entered the ministry in 1957 after graduating with a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and studying theology at St. Andrew’s College and Drew University. Rev. Dickin served eight charges in seventeen years including: Strasbourg, Radisson, Saltcoats, Semans, Regina and Houston, B.C.

Dinsmore Pastoral Charge

  • SCAA-UCCS-0346
  • Corporate body
  • 1925–2006

Dinsmore Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, part of Saskatoon Presbytery (then Elrose Presbytery in 1926) and consisting of preaching points at Abermule, Pontiac and Dinsmore. In the late-1940s, the charge amalgamated with Wiseton to form Wiseton-Dinsmore Pastoral Charge, with preaching points at Dinsmore, Forgan, and Wiseton. By 1951, the charge (listed as Wiseton Pastoral Charge) consisted of Wiseton, Dinsmore, Forgan and Coteau-View appointments. As of 1962, only Wiseton, Dinsmore and Forgan remained (the last of which was no longer listed by 1976).

On March 1, 2006, the charge joined with the Milden preaching point (previously part of Wheatlands Pastoral Charge) to create the new Prairie Spirit Pastoral Charge.

Dix, David Strathy

  • SCAA-UCCS-0077
  • Person
  • 1875–1956

D.S. Dix was a prominent Presbyterian and then United Church clergyman, whose work included serving as minister to Saskatoon's Westminster Church, as lecturer and professor at the Presbyterian Theological College – which became St. Andrew's College – in Saskatoon, as Principal of St.Andrew's College, and as President of Saskatchewan Conference.

Born in 1875, in Woodbridge (York County), Ontario, Dix trained as a teacher and taught for 6 years before enrolling in the Presbyterian Knox College (University of Toronto). He graduated with a degree in theology, in 1907, and pursued further studies in divinity at Glasgow University (Scotland), the University of Chicago, and Union Seminary (New York). He served as minister to St. James Church (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia), 1908-1910, to Chalmers Church (Guelph, Ontario), 1910-1913, and Westminster Church (Saskatoon), 1913-1919. Dix was also a lecturer and then professor at the Presbyterian Theological College, which became St. Andrew's College (Saskatoon), under its first Principal, Rev. E.H. Oliver. In 1935, Dix was appointed Principal of the College, after the death of E.H. Oliver.

In June 1946, Dix officially retired but remained associated with St. Andrew's College. He served on the United Church Board of Overseas Missions and as President of Saskatchewan Conference (1934-1935). He was Conference Archivist (1947-1953), and chairman of the Conference Historical Committee until his death, in 1956.

Dominion Church Property Commission

  • SCAA-UCCS-0082
  • Corporate body
  • ca.1924–1927

The Dominion Commission (officially "The Commission appointed pursuant to The United Church Act, chapter 100 of the Statutes of Canada, 1924") was formed to enable the distribution of property between the United Church of Canada, which about 70% of Presbyterian Churches in Canada joined, and the remaining "non-concurring" Presbyterian Church.

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