Corporate body

United Church of Canada, Saskatchewan Conference

1925–2018

The United Church of Canada was formed in 1925, from a union of the Congregational Union of Canada, the Methodist Church and 70% of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, along with a number of churches organized under the General Council of Local Union Churches (mostly in Western Canada). Saskatchewan Conference was one of eleven regional Conferences established by the United Church of Canada General Council, at their inaugural meeting, in June 1925. Initially, the Conference contained 16 presbyteries but this number varied, in the years that followed.

In January 2019, as part of a larger restructuring of the United Church of Canada, Saskatchewan Conference and its seven existing presbyteries were combined into a single entity, identified as Region 4.

Terms for Church Union were set out in the "Basis of Union" (document), drafted by the Joint Union Committee in 1908 and revised through negotiation between the uniting denominations. The United Church of Canada Act was passed by the Parliament of Canada, in 1924, and related legislation from provincial governments, including Saskatchewan, followed soon after. Saskatchewan Conference was officially created by motion of the United Church First General Council (seventeenth session), in 1925.

Rules for governance are set out in the United Church of Canada Manual, which was first written in 1925 and has been revised several times since then.

The Conference was an administrative grouping of presbyteries (or districts), governed by a court of lay and ministerial delegates from presbyteries and pastoral charges. Traditionally, this court met yearly (at the Annual Meeting or "Conference") and an elected Conference Executive Committee governed between meetings. Conference office staff worked with committees, presbyteries and charges on a variety of tasks.

The term "Conference" has multiple meanings in the United Church, both administrative and geographic. It often refers to one of the eleven to thirteen regional governing bodies within the United Church of Canada (from 1925 to 2018) classified as Conferences, which make up one of the "court" levels of the Church, alongside the (national) General Council, and the various Presbyteries or Districts that make up each Conference. The regular (often annual) meeting of the court of lay and ministerial delegates from presbyteries and pastoral charges could also be referred to as the Conference. The term can also mean the geographical area containing pastoral charges and presbyteries overseen and served by a particular Conference.

United Church of Canada Wascana Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Twin Valleys Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Tamarack Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada River Bend Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Prairie Pine Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Good Spirit Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Chinook Presbytery (2000–2018)

United Church of Canada Plains Presbytery (1984–2018)

United Church of Canada Souris Valley Presbytery (ca.1973–2000)

United Church of Canada Cypress Hills Presbytery (1959–2000)

United Church of Canada Abernethy-Yorkton Presbytery (1953–1956)

United Church of Canada Arcola-Estevan Presbytery (1951–1973)

United Church of Canada Rosetown Presbytery (1949–2000)

United Church of Canada Elrose Presbytery (1926–1949)

United Church of Canada Abernethy Presbytery (1925–1953)

United Church of Canada Arcola Presbytery (1925–1951)

United Church of Canada Estevan Presbytery (1925–1951)

United Church of Canada Yorkton Presbytery (1925–1953, 1956–2000)

United Church of Canada Assiniboia Presbytery (1925–1973)

United Church of Canada Kamsack Presbytery (1925–1956)

United Church of Canada Weyburn Presbytery (1925–1959)

United Church of Canada Battleford Presbytery (1925–2000)

United Church of Canada Kindersley Presbytery (1925–1949)

United Church of Canada Moose Jaw Presbytery (1925–2000)

United Church of Canada Qu'Appelle Presbytery (1925–2000)

United Church of Canada Regina Presbytery (1925–2000)

United Church of Canada Saskatoon Presbytery (1925–2000)

United Church of Canada Shaunavon Presbytery (1926–1951)

United Church of Canada Swift Current Presbytery (1925–1959)

United Church of Canada Wilkie Presbytery (1925–1961)

United Church of Canada Prince Albert Presbytery (1925–2000)

Johnston, Charles F. (1918–2010)

Powers, Ken (19??–)

Smillie, Benjamin Galetly (1923–2011)

Underwood, Lillian Romona (1914–2006)

Newman, Paul William (1934–)

Edworthy, Aubrey G. (1919–2013)

Stewart, Harley Charles Ross (1925–1976)

Dingwall, Norman Stewart (1923–2001)

Sangster, James Sim ([1917–1982?])

Scott, Norman William (1924–2003)

McLellan, Robert James (1923–1978)

Calling Lakes Centre (1951–2018)

United Church Woman’s Association, Saskatchewan Conference (ca.1950–1962)

Thompson, Robert Merle (1911–1991)

Banting, Meredith Black (1901–1991)

Wartman, Gordon Bruce (1918–2011)

MacTavish, Francis Sutherland (19??–1943)

Mitchell, John Charles Wesley ([1901]–1974)

Lane, Homer Russell (1904–1974)

Beveridge, Thomas McLeish (1905–1997)

Rice, Daniel Gregor ([1877]–1971)

Heffelfinger, Galen Gordon (1893–1964)

United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch (1926–1962)

Hughes, William Henry (1879–1955)

Dix, David Strathy (1875–1956)

Clare, Frederick Alexander (1878–1966)

University of Saskatchewan St. Andrew's College (1912–)

Kennedy, Samuel Arthur (1888–1974)

Ralph, Benjamin (1843–1930)

Toombs, Herbert Wesley (1871–1934)

Oliver, Edmund Henry, 1881-1935 (Professor of History) (1881-1935)

MacLean, Duncan Archibald (1894–1971)

Tannahill, Robert Dunsmore (1895–1982)

Ingram, Aubrey White (1883–1965)

Bray, Thomas (1882–1954)

Justice, Andrew Christie (18??–1954)

Kemlo, Alexander (1870–1955)

Kerr, Charles Bernard (1873–1955)

Leitch, Hugh D. (18??–1938)

Tufts, A.J. (1867–1944)

Rondeau, Samuel Peter ([1866]–1955)

Young, Archibald (1880–1942)

Endicott, Charles (1874–1947)

Clarke, William Francis (1918–1989)

Saskatchewan Youth Parliament (ca.1912–)

Saskatoon Ministerial Association (19??–)

Saskatchewan Boys' Work Board

United Church Young Peoples' Union, Saskatchewan Conference (ca.1935–1965)

Methodist Church (Canada), Saskatchewan Conference (ca.1904–1925)

Presbyterian Church in Canada, Synod of Saskatchewan (ca.1905–1925)

General Council of Local Union Churches of Western Canada (ca.1912–1925)

SCAA-UCCS-0001

United Church of Canada Region 4 Archives

SCNUCSC

Draft

2017: drafted for SAIN;
2018-2019: revised.

• English

United Church of Canada, "Manual" (2016); United Church Year Books; Saskatchewan Conference Records of Proceedings.