Background to Union, doctrines and traditions
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Typed one page [manuscript] on the background to Union and the influence of the doctrines and traditions of the uniting churches on the United Church of Canada. [No date noted.]
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Background to Union, doctrines and traditions
Typed one page [manuscript] on the background to Union and the influence of the doctrines and traditions of the uniting churches on the United Church of Canada. [No date noted.]
Beaver Lodge: A Story of a Frontier Settlement in Northern Saskatchewan
Beaver Lodge. A Story of a Frontier Settlement in Northern Saskatchewan. Henry Esmund, Board of Home Missions, United Church of Canada, 1930. Henry Esmund was E.H.Oliver's nom-de-plume.
Part of Saskatchewan Conference fonds
Series consists of records relating to and/or created by various committees, boards, camps, and other entities governed by or associated with the United Church of Canada, in Saskatchewan. Contents include minutes, reports, correspondence, plans and other documents and images pertaining to: the Committee for Christian Education (1925-1970), including Girls' Work and Children's Work Committees; Survey and Planning Committee; Settlement Committee (1924-1961); the Conference Special Committee for the Saskatchewan Golden Jubilee (1955); Committee to Study Non-Anglo-Saxons (1930-1931); Missionary and Maintenance Fund Committee (1934-1935); the Special Committee to Study the Relationship between the Christian Church and Education in Saskatchewan (1966); the Committee on Union of the United Church of Canada (1961-1973); the Conference Committee on Church Extension; Board of Home Missions (1917-1952); Lumsden Beach Camp (1908-1962); Camp Outlook (1947-1953); White Bear Religious Camp (1930-1940); the Benevolent Society of Camp McKay (1953-1983); the Prairie Christian Training Centre [later Calling Lakes Centre] (1952-1973); the Ministers' Summer School of Religion (1934-1941); Templeton Mission (1952-1953); Moose Jaw College (1914-1945); Conference Committee on Colleges and Education (1930-1931), primarily correspondence from Convenor D.S. Dix; Oliver Lodge (1949-1979); Laymembers of Saskatchewan Conference (1925-1963); the Boundaries Committee (1973); and Camp Tapawingo (1960-1980).
The fonds consists of records created and collected by Rev. Wartman, before and during his time as an ordained minister, in Saskatchewan. Contents include: correspondence (1954-1958); historical documents by various individuals, including Rev. Wartman, W.B. Baker, and Rev. Frank Hoffman (ca.1940-1982); and annual reports from Regina St. James United Church (1975, 1977, 1978), North Battleford Third Avenue United Church (1960-1961), and Kindersley St. Paul’s, Netherhill and Knox United Churches (1958-1960).
Wartman, Gordon Bruce
The collection consists of primarily textual materials relating to the Church Union movement and the organizations involved, including the Joint Committee on Church Union. There appears to be a mix of original documents and various published and copied items.
Contents include: Basis of Union documents from the Presbyterian Church (1905-1908) and Methodist Church (1909); records of proceedings, minutes, and publications by and relating to the Joint Committee on Church Union and its Subcommittees; documents relating to proposed legislation (1922-1924), the Act Incorporating the United Church of Canada, House of Commons debates on the topic, and associated Saskatchewan legislation (1924); publications and articles relating to the anti-union movement and the legal issues resulting from the division of the Presbyterian Church; copies of information regarding the voting returns on Union from across Canada (1925-1926); maps showing communities with local union churches; and a poster published by the Union Committee of the Presbyterian Church (1924).
Joint Committee on Church Union
Commission Pursuant to the United Church of Canada Act fonds
The collection consists primarily textual materials relating to the creation of the United Church and the associated Commission Pursuant to the United Church of Canada Act. Contents include: commission proceedings; orders relating to property; and collected correspondence and other materials relating to non-concurring Presbyterian congregations in Saskatchewan.
Dominion Church Property Commission
Elks Day in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A very large crowd of children and adults standing in front to the United Church on Third Avenue in Biggar, Saskatchewan
The fonds is from Jack Arthur Howell's personal collection. It contains nine black and white photographs with matching negatives. These images are of Arthur, Ethel, and George Howell, the Howell family farm, and farming activities. There are also two more black and white photographs. One of the photographs is of the Women's Missionary Society of the United Church and the other is of a Saskatchewan Agricultural Societies convention.
The collection contains one photocopy of a black and white photograph. Taken in 1930, the image is a formal group portrait of the Melfort United Church's young people's group, "The Alerts," of which Mabel Braaten was a member.
Braaten, Mabel
Missionary work of church women's organizations, 1816-1962
Chart showing the missionary work of church women's organizations in the three uniting churches and in the United Church of Canada, 1816-1962.
Provincial Church Union Committee fonds
The collection consists of minutes, correspondence and publications created by and relating to the Saskatchewan Provincial Church Union Committee. The Committee was formed on July 26, 1923 by representatives of the Saskatchewan Methodist Conference and the Presbyterian Synod of Saskatchewan, to take preliminary steps to effect Church Union in Saskatchewan. Representatives of the congregational Churches were also invited to be on the committee.
Provincial Church Union Committee
Fonds consists of textual and other materials generated by the Conference, the Conference Executive, Conference Staff and Conference Committee members in the fulfillment of their mandate, as outlined in The Manual of the United Church of Canada, from 1925 to 2018. Some records created prior to Union (1925) are also included in certain series, as noted.
United Church of Canada, Saskatchewan Conference
The United Church Senior's Choir in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Members of the United Church Senior's Choir posing for a group photograph in front of the alter in the United Church in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
A view of the United Church in Biggar, SK
United Church in Biggar, Saskatchewan
Part of Biggar Photograph Collection
Exterior view of the United Church in Biggar, Saskatchewan.