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Wynyard (Sask.)

Ferguson, Helen

  • Person
  • 1892-[1981]

Helen Ross was born in 1892 in Burford, Ontario. She studied art at Moulton College in Toronto before her family moved to Wynyard, Saskatchewan in 1911. She was engaged to Dr. Robert George Ferguson from 1912 until their wedding on July 5, 1916. During their engagement she trained to be a nurse at the Winnipeg General Hospital but contracted scarlet fever, diphtheria, and pneumonia towards the end of her third year and had to discontinue her training (1912-1915). After their wedding, the pair resided at the Fort San Sanatorium. After his retirement, they moved to Balfour Apartments in Regina while still summering at a cottage on Echo Lake near Fort San. Helen is remembered as an artist and for her ability to remember names, accompanying her husband as he visiting patients in the sanatorium. Helen lived past her 89th year.

Wynyard Pastoral Charge

  • SCAA-UCCS-0349
  • Corporate body
  • 1925–1997

Wynyard Pastoral Charge was formed as a new United Church charge in 1925, containing preaching points at Wynyard, Little Quill and Harvard. On March 31, 1997, the charge amalgamated with Foote-Copeland Pastoral Charge, forming the new Living Shamrock Pastoral Charge.