Corporate body

White Bear Pastoral Charge

• Moose Mountain Mission

1925–ca.1969, ca.1976–

White Bear Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925, as Moose Mountain Pastoral Charge, part of Arcola Presbytery. It was later included in Arcola-Estevan Presbytery and then Souris Valley Presbytery. For a time, the charge was amalgamated with Manor, under the name Manor-Moose Mountain Pastoral Charge and (later) the Manor-White Bear Pastoral Charge. Around 1976, the Manor preaching point separated and re-formed Manor Pastoral Charge (initially served from Antler-Redvers Pastoral Charge).

In 1984, as White Bear Pastoral Charge, it joined the new Plains Presbytery, which became part of the All Native Circle Conference when it was formed, in 1989.

The Pastoral Charge includes White Bear United Church, also known as the Moose Mountain Mission, which is located near Carlyle, Saskatchewan (south of Moose Mountain Provincial Park). Before Union, the preaching point was originally recorded as a Presbyterian mission, as early as 1889. A mission house built in 1896 continued to be used for the United Church of Canada congregation until a log chapel was built around 1940. A larger church was built in 1960.

White Bear First Nation (area), near Carlyle, Saskatchewan

Local church congregations in the United Church are organized into pastoral charges, each run by a governing body, such as a Council or Board. Charges can often include more than one local church or preaching place congregation under the leadership of a minister.

Manor-White Bear Pastoral Charge (ca.1969–ca.1976)

United Church of Canada Plains Presbytery (1984–2018)

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

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

United Church of Canada Arcola Presbytery (1925–1951)

SCAA-UCCS-0167

United Church of Canada Living Skies Archives

SCNUCSC

Draft

2018-March: drafted for SAIN

• English

UCC Manitoba Northwest Ontario Conference Archives entry "White Bear United Church", from Manitoba Archival Information Network (Association for Manitoba Archives), as of 2018-March; United Church Year Books; Saskatchewan Conference Records of Proceedings.