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United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives Dix, David Strathy
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Church Union collection

  • FG 09
  • Collection
  • ca.1900–1936

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

Church Union Expense Fund

Correspondence of Rev. D.S. Dix, Synodical Treasurer of the Church Union Expense Fund, concerning collections for the Fund. A committee was appointed by the Synod to collect money, which was then forwarded for the use of the national committee. The correspondence is mainly about the amounts collected but a few letters mention problems or success in making collections. The file also includes a copy of the Minutes of Church Union Synod Committee, November 11, 1924.

Commission Pursuant to the United Church of Canada Act fonds

  • FA 10
  • Collection
  • 1926–1928

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

Correspondence [1923-1926] - Saskatchewan Church Union Committee

File consists of correspondence, mainly with Dr. D.S. Dix, as Secretary of the Saskatchewan Union Church Committee, and with Dr. E.H. Oliver, concerning statistics on Church Union in Western Canada, opposition to Church Union in Saskatchewan, activities among the Presbyterians in Nova Scotia, the church Union Expense Fund, arousing support for the passing of the Church Union Bill, maps showing extent of cooperation or union, presbytery meetings, policy on voting on Church Union, a "Letter to the editor", November 15, 1924, written by E.H. Oliver concerning a letter from Rev. Ephraim Scott which was published in newspapers, circular letters sent by the National Committee on Church Union, primarily concerned with gaining support for the pro-union vote, and voting returns.

Correspondence and minutes [1923] - Saskatchewan Church Union Committee

File of Dr. D.S. Dix, as Secretary of the Committee, which includes minutes of the July 26, 1923 meeting of the Provincial Church Union Committee and correspondence concerning provincial meetings of the Committee, meetings throughout the province at which the subject of union was to be presented by Eastern Canadian clergy, and the appointment of counsel in connection with the presentation of the provincial Church Union Bill.

General Interests Committee

File contains mimeographed material sent out by the General Interests Committee, including: Minutes of the Committee meeting of June 21, 1922; Digest of the Minutes of the Committee meeting of June 24, 1924; and Minutes of the Executive of the Synodical Committee on Church Union vote, February 12, 1925.

Installation of Principals and Professors (St. Andrew's College)

Biographies file -- orders of service, newspaper clippings, call to a minister (1946), forms, invitations. Contents relate to St. Andrew's College personnel, including David Jobling, John B. Corston, Charles F. Johnston, Paul W. Newman, Douglas J. Hall, Robert F. Schnell, D.S. Dix, Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore, Randolph Carleton Chalmers.

Provincial Church Union Committee fonds

  • FA 09
  • Collection
  • 1921–1926

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