Instelling

Biggar Pastoral Charge

1925–

Biggar Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925 as a new United Church charge, part of Wilkie Presbytery and consisting of Third Avenue United Church, in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Third Avenue United had been originally built in 1910, as a Union Church, with a congregation of Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists. Early pre-1925 rural preaching points had also included Salter, Lett and Monarch. (By 1936, Monarch was a separate Pastoral Charge, with points at Kensmith, Gagenville and Wilson Lake). Around 1940, Biggar Pastoral Charge included preaching points at Crane Creek, Naseby and Salter, though these three returned to Cando Pastoral Charge sometime before 1946. (Cando Pastoral Charge would eventually join with Landis Pastoral Charge.)

In 2000, the charge became part of Prairie Pine Presbytery and, with the 2018 reorganization, it continued into the new Living Skies Regional Council.

Third Avenue United Church (Biggar, SK)

Local church congregations in the United Church are organized into pastoral charges, each run by a governing body, such as a Council or Board. Charges can often include more than one local church or preaching place congregation under the leadership of a minister.

United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (2019–)

United Church of Canada Prairie Pine Presbytery (2000–2018)

Adams, Melvin Henry (1917–1998)

United Church of Canada Rosetown Presbytery (1949–2000)

United Church of Canada Wilkie Presbytery (1925–1961)

United Church (Biggar) (ca.1910–)

SCAA-UCCS-0446

United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives

SCNUCSC

Klad

2021: drafted for MemorySask.
2023: revised in MemorySask.

• Engels

"Biggar United Church" in "Early History of Saskatchewan Churches (Grass Roots)" vol.1, compiled by Meredith B. Banting, ca.1975, pp.161-162; UCC Sask. Conference Records of Proceedings; UCC Year Books.