Wakaw (Sask.)

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  • Town, northeast of Aberdeen
  • Land location 30-42-26-W2, according to CGNDB.

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  • Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)

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History of our Living Elders Project fonds

  • A-2007.17
  • Fonds
  • 2000-2001

This fonds contains the book titled History of Our Living Elders and 99 cassette tapes of the interviews

History of our Living Elders Project

Harness racing

Unidentified man with horse and chariot sporting winners garlands. Sign in background reads: "McDiarmid Lumber Co."

Historical Record of Prince Albert Presbytery

Bound album "The Historical Record of the Presbytery of Prince Albert", 1929. Contents include a typed history, written by J. Sheridan Bole, Chairman of the Presbytery Historical Committee, with a brief outline of the Presbyterian Mission at Prince Albert and of the Presbytery, and detailed histories of the charges within the Presbytery. The back part of the volume ("Illustrations" section) contains photographs of churches and other buildings associated with church activities, such as mission hospitals and schools. Prints are partially attached to pages, while negatives, in protective envelopes, are also loosely tucked into the volume.

Buildings and locations featured in photos include: St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prince Albert; home of Miss Lucy Baker; Prince Albert memorial cairn; United Church, Big River; United Church and former Methodist church, Birch Hills; former Methodist Church, United Church and manse, Davis; Deer Park Presbyterian Church; Red Deer Hill church; Old Hill Farm House, near Flett's Springs, where services were held 1891; old manse and Flett's Springs Church, between Prince Albert and Dauphin; United Church and former Methodist church, Kinistino; United Church, Leask; town of Melfort, 1895-1900; former Methodist Church, United Church, and St. James Presbyterian Church, Melfort; Northside United Church; United Church, Beatty; Nisbet School Home, opened in 1918; United Church, Naicam; church and manse, Nipawin; Ravine Bank church, Nipawin; United Church, Codette; United Church and manse, Pathlow; United Church and manse, Pleasant Valley; United Church, Pleasantdale; old and new mission houses, Round Plain reserve; United Church and manse, Ridgedale; United Church, Campbellville; Methodist and United Churches and manse, Tisdale; United Church, Shellbrook; United Church and mission house, Wakaw ; first and [later] "present" Anna Turnbull Memorial Hospital, Wakaw.

Portraits include: Dr. James Robinson, 1839-1902; Dr. G.F. MacDougall; Capt. Moore; the Nesbitt children; Rev. John McKay; Miss Lucy Baker, 1836-1909; the "Melfort Pioneers", group photo of men (names noted below), on steps of Canadian Bank of Commerce; Nisbet School Home boys (group photo); children and congregation from Round Plain Reserve.

Wakaw [history and photos]

Church history file -- including "Wakaw Hospital: A Sketch" (booklet) by Hannah Glen MacDonald, "The Lake Geneva Mission, Wakaw, Saskatchewan" (article) by A. Becker [ca.1976?], group portrait "Staff of Anna Turnbull Hospital, Wakaw, March 1925" (photo, on cardboard frame/backing), showing 5 women in uniforms, holding 10 infants.

Aberdeen, Rosthern, Wakaw Pastoral Charges fonds

  • FL 002
  • Fonds
  • 1893–2008

The fonds consists of textual materials generated by TRI Pastoral Charge, Aberdeen Pastoral Charge and the prior Vonda Pastoral Charge, Rosthern Pastoral Charge, Wakaw Pastoral Charge and many of their constituent churches – their boards, committees and related bodies, local women’s units and other groups.

Contents include: minutes of church boards, sessions and stewards, and congregational meetings; some Sunday School records; minutes and financial records from some of the local Ladies Aid Society, Women’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.), Woman’s Association (W.A.) and United Church Women (U.C.W.) groups; brief histories; membership records; and registers documenting baptisms, marriages and burials at Aberdeen, Vonda, Prud’homme, Rosthern, Wakaw, and related locations. There is also a small number of minutes, letters and receipts from a Ruthenian Presbyterian Church (associated with Wakaw), written in Ukranian.

Aberdeen Pastoral Charge