McLachlan, John

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

McLachlan, John

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • McLachlan, Rev. John

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1882–1964

History

John McLachlan was a Methodist and later United Church minister in Saskatchewan and Ontario. He was born and raised in the fishing village of Tarbet, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada, and was a probationer in Adanac, Saskatchewan, in 1909, before being ordained, in 1910. He studied at Wesley College, Winnipeg, 1911-1915, and served charges in Saskatchewan and Ontario until he retired in 1953.

Places

Manitoba (1910?-1914); Venn (1914-1916), Watrous (1917-1918), Pheasant Forks (1919-1922), Briercrest (1923-1925), Tuxford (1924-1928), Buffalo Lake (1929-1930), Moose Jaw (1931-1935), Carlyle (1936), Saskatchewan; Ontario (1937-1963)

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Methodist minister (1910-1925), received on trial/ordained 1910; student at Wesley College, Winnipeg (1911-1914); United Church minister (1925-1964), retired 1953.

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Access points area

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0385

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2018: drafted for SAIN.
2021: revised in MemorySask, with additions from UCC Archives (Toronto).

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

Biographical file "McLachlan, John" (ref. no. A.676.XX.McLachlan), UCC Sask. Conference Archives; Douglas Walkington, United Church Ministers 1925-1980; United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto) entry "McLachlan, John, 1882-1964", https://catalogue.unitedchurcharchives.ca/mclachlan-john-1882-1964; UCC Year Book 1965, vol. 2, p.179.

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