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United Church of Canada Living Skies Region Archives Oliver, Edmund Henry Presbyterian Church√
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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

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

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

Presbyterianism in Saskatchewan

Presbyterianism in Saskatchewan [file], including:

  • "Report of the Historical Committee, 1919" -- this is a review of the history of Presbyterianism in the Red River Colony and Western Canada
  • "Report on the Condition and Working of the Prince Albert Presbyterian Mission to the Indians on the Saskatchewan" by Rev. W.M. Moore, printed for the use of the Foreign Mission Committee of the Canada [sic] Presbyterian Church, 1873 (52 pages)
  • "The Presbyterian Church in Saskatchewan, 1866-1881" by E.H. Oliver, Royal Society of Canada, 1934 (94 pages)
  • "The Presbyterian Church in Saskatchewan, 1866-1925" by Rev. J.R. McDonald, 1955 (58 pages)
  • "The Synod of Saskatchewan of the Presbyterian Church in Canada from 1925 to 1935" by Rev. D.G. Cameron -- refers to the continuing Presbyterian Church, compiled at the request of E.H. Oliver (13 pages)