Church Histories Collection United Church of , Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Conference)

About the Records Note: See https://memorysask.ca/church-histories-collection for detailed description. Summary Title proper: Church Histories Collection Reference code: FG19 Title notes: Previously identified as Church Histories series (A.676.XIX).

Creation: ca.1925–1986 [collection]

Physical description: 2.2 metres (approx.) textual records

Scope and content The collection consists primarily of documents relating to the histories of various local churches in Saskatchewan. Contents include written historical narratives (sketches) and notes, newspaper articles, pamphlets, and publications. The latter include volumes 1 and 2 of "Early Churches (Grass Roots)", compiled and edited by Meredith B. Banting, ca.1975. Availability of other formats Some publications containing local church histories are also available from the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan and various local public libraries.

Finding aids: GS-168 includes original file and series listings, in section A.676.XIX, with additions listed under A.785.XV.SA.270B to SA.270C.

Associated materials Additional local histories and related documents may be found among other pastoral charge, presbytery and Conference fonds in the Archives.

About Archival Reference Numbers When requesting access to specific records, please note the title and date listed, as well as all parts of the reference code, including: • the locator code (e.g. “A.676”); • a roman-numeral series code (e.g. “XVII”) and any sub-series codes present; • individual file and/or item identifiers. Example: A.676.XVII.D.1 – Edmund H. Oliver, Correspondence, 1911-1916. Note: Records marked “restricted” in the finding aid will have to be reviewed before they can be made available to researchers. Requests should be sent to the Living Skies Archives office.

Collection list (from GS-168 database) Church Histories A676.XIX. Abbey Aberdeen including Vonda Abernethy Adanac Admiral Alameda

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Alexander Alida Alsask Anglia Antler Arborfield Archydal Arcola Arpad Arthur Asquith Assiniboia Atwater Auburnton Avonlea Aylesbury Aylsham Baildon Balcarres Bangor Bateman including Palmer Bear Creek including Piapot Beatty Bekevar including Kipling Belbeck Belle Plaine Bemersyde including Windthorst Bender including Kipling Bengough also see Ogema Benson see Stoughton Bethune Beverley also see Cantuar Bevitt see Old Wives Field Biggar Birsay

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Blue Hill including , Carrot River, Crystal Springs, Boharm Borden see Radisson Boscurvis including Oxbow Bounty Bracken Briercrest including Drinkwater, Sunny Hill; also see Blue Hill Broadview Brock Broderick Brora Brownlee Brushwood Bryn Mawr Buffalo Lake including Pioneer, Tuxford Cabri Cadillac Calvin also see Alida Camp McKay see Round Lake Canora Cantuar Carlton including Landis Carlyle Carlyle Lake including Wabamasquah Camp Caron Carrot River including Flett Springs and Tisdale Castleton Ceylon Chamberlain Chaplin

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Churchbridge Climax Coderre Colgate including , Tribune Colleston Colonsay Condie Conquest Consul Coronach also see Luella Cory including Smithville Coteau Cottonwood Coxley see Morse Craik Crane Creek Creelman also see Fillmore Crestwynd see Old Wives Field Crief also see Fillmore Crooked River Crosthwaite Crystal Springs see Birch Hills Cudworth Cupar Cutarm including Camp McKay Cut Knife Cymric also see Duval Davidson Dafoe Delisle Dilke Dinsmore see Wiseton Disley Dodsland also see Plenty - Dodsland Donavon Drinkwater also see Briercrest

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Dubuc Duck Lake Duff Dummer Dunblane Dundurn Duval Eagle Creek Earl Grey Eastbourne Eastview Edgeley Eldred Ellisboro Elrose Elstow Englefield see Morse Esterhazy Eston Evesham Eyebrow Fairmede see Fairy Hill see Longlaketon Fairlight Fern Fernley see Wawota Feudal Fielding Fillmore Findlater Fir Mountain Fiske

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Fleming Flett Springs see Carrot River File Hills Forgan see Wiseton Forest also see Lumsden Fort Qu'Appelle also see Qu'Appelle Foxbury Frobisher Frontier Gallivan Gerald Gilroy Girvin Gladmar see Ceylon Glamis including Idaleen, Madoc, Padgate Glen Adelaide see Wawota Glenavon Glenside Golden Plain Goodwater see Colgate Grand Coulee Grandview Grassy Hill including Palmer Grenfell including Wolseley Griffin Gull Lake Halcyonia see Radisson Handel Hanley Hardy see Ceylon Harris Hazelcliffe Hazle Hearne also see Avonlea

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Herbert see Morse Heward see Stoughton Hillburn Hope Hope Hall also see Perdue Hubbard Hudson Bay Humboldt Huron see Buffalo Lake and Tuxford Idaleen see Glamis Imperial Indian Head Invermay Jellicoe Kedleston Keeler Kelso also see Wawota Kelfield Kelliher Kelvington Kenlis Kennedy Killdeer Kincaid Kinistino also see Birch Hills, Carrot River, Crystal Springs Kinley including Perdue Kipling also see Bekevar and Bender Kyle Lacadena Lafleche Lajord Lambeth Lancer including Portreeve Landis also see Carlton

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Lang also see Milestone Langham Lanigan Lansdowne Lathem Laura see Alsask Lawson Leader Leask see Shell Lake Lemberg Leroy Leslie see Foam Lake Lewiswyn Lewvan Liberty Limerick also see Lafleche Lipton Llewelyn Longlaketon Loreburn Loon Lake Lucky Lake Luella including Coronach Lumsden also see Morse McAuley McCord McLaren McTaggart Macklin Macoun Macworth Madison Madoc including Idaleen, Padgate and Glamis

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Manor Mantario Maple Creek see: A785.SA.270B, M.B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book I; A785.SA.470C, Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book II. Margo Marquis Marsden including Marshall Maryfield Mawer Maymont Meadow Lake Melaval also see Lafleche Melfort Melville Meskanaw Meyronne Milden Milestone including Lang Minton also see Ceylon Mistatim Mitchelton Moffat also see Glenavaon : Chinese Mission Moose Jaw: Grace Moose Jaw: Minto Moose Jaw: St. Andrew's Moose Jaw: Trinity Moose Jaw: Zion Moosomin Morse Mortlach Mount Pleasant Muirland Murraydale

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Nauderville Mission Field including North London Mission Field Neelby Neilburg see Marsden Neville Norbury Norquay Ogema including Bengough and Obthorpe Old Wives Field Orkney Osage Oungre see Colgate Outlook Oxbow also see Boscurvis Padgate see Glamis Pangman also see Ogema Parkbeg Parry Pennant Pense Pezance Petrolia Pheasant Forks Charge Piapot also see Bear Creek Pinwherry Pioneer see Buffalo Lake Plato Pleasantdale Pleasant View Plenty Plenty-Dodsland Poplar Grove

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Porcupine Trail Portreeve also see Lang Prince Albert: General Prince Albert: Calvary Prince Albert: St. Paul’s Prince Albert: Wesley Qu'Appelle also see Fort Qu'Appelle Radisson Readlyn Redvers Regina: General Regina: Broadway including St. John's Regina: Carmichael Regina: Chalmers Regina: Knox Regina: Knox-Metropolitan including Knox Presbyterian and Metropolitan Methodist congregations Regina: Lakeview Regina: Rosemont Regina: St. Andrew’s Regina: St. James Regina: St. John’s see Broadway Regina: Settlement House Regina: Wascana Regina: Wesley Regina: Westminster Regina: Zion Richard Richlea Ridgedale also see Hillburn

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Rosebank Rosetown Rothermore Round Lake including Camp McKay Ruthilda St. Benedict St. Boswell’s including Palmer Salter Salvador : Balmoral Saskatoon: Bethel Saskatoon: Grace Saskatoon: Grace-Westminster Saskatoon: Grosvenor Park Saskatoon: Knox Saskatoon: Mayfair Saskatoon: McClure Saskatoon: St. Martin’s Saskatoon: St. Paul’s including Sutherland Saskatoon: St. Thomas-Wesley Saskatoon: Second Street Saskatoon: Third Avenue Saskatoon: Trinity Saskatoon: Westminster Saskatoon including miscellaneous Sceptre Scotsguard Scott Scottown Scrip Semans Senlac Shaunavon Shellbrook Shell Lake including Leask,

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Sherwood Sibbald Silton Silver Craig including Simmie Simpson Sinclair Sister Buttee see Fir Mountain Smeaton: W.M.S. Hospital Smithville also see Cory Snowden Sonningdale Southey Sovereign Speers Spiritwood (Shell Lake) Springwater Spruce Lake Star City also see Tisdale Stockholm Stone Stony Beach Stoughton Sunny see Briercrest Superb Sutherland also see Saskatoon: St. Paul's Swarthmore Taber Talmage Tate Tessier Theodore Thunder Creek Tilney Tisdale also see Carrot River Tompkins

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Tonkin Tregarva Tribune also see Colgate Trossachs Tugaske Tuxford also see Buffalo Lake Tyvan Unity Vandura see Wawota Vanguard Vanscoy Vantage Veregin Viewfield also see Stoughton Viscount Vonda also see Aberdeen Wadena Waldeck Wallace Walpole see Wawota Wapella Wartime Wascana Watson Wauchope Wawota Webb Weldon Wheatland Whitewood Wilcox Wilkie Willmar see

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Church Histories A676.XIX. Windcrest see Old Wives Field Windthorst see Bemersyde Winlaw Wiseton Wolseley also see Grenfell Wood Mountain see Fir Mountain Woodville Wordsworth Wynyard Young Zealandia Zelma

A.676.XIX. SA.1445 Sovereign History to 60th Anniversary 1989 See A.676.XIX. Sovereign SA.1446 Sovereign History 1967 See A.676.XIX.Sovereign SA.1554 Duval Historical Sketch 1910–1970 See A.676.XIX. Duval

A.785.XV.SA.270B – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book I [ca.1975] Includes: AOTS Men’s Clubs Alameda United Church Aneroid, Wallard United Church Aneroid United Church (incl. Embryo, Union) Arcola, St. Andrew’s United Church Assiniboia, St. Paul’s United Church Aylsham United Church Battleford United Church Belle Plain, Stony Beach United Church Bethune United Church , Trinity United Church [etc.] Biggar United Church Bracken United Church Bredenbury Knox United Church Briercrest United Church Broadview United Church

UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 15 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270B – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book I [ca.1975] Buck Lake Methodist Church Cabri United Church Cando United Church Canora St. Andrew’s United Church Carievale United Church Carrot River, Pas Trail Mission Central Butte United Church Climax United Church Codette Knox United Church Coleville United Church Cupar United Church Davidson United Church Dilke Grace United Church Eston United Church Ethelton Fletts’ Springs Presbyterian Church Evesham United Church Fillmore and Huronville Findlater United Church Fleming, Robson Memorial United Church Foam Lake United Church Grand Coulee Glenside Gray United Church Griffin United Church Hazlet Trinity United Church Herschel United Church Humboldt, Brithdir United Church Indian Head, St. Andrew’s United Church Landis United Church Lang Methodist Church United Church Leask, Trinity United Church Macklin, Grace United Church Macrorie United Church Maple Creek United Church Margo, Knox United Church

UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 16 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270B – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book I [ca.1975] Maryfield, Fairlight United Church Maryfield, St. Andrew’s United Church Melville First United Church United Church Milden United Church Moose Jaw, Minto United Church Moose Jaw, Trinity United Church Nipawin United Church Norquay United Church Oxbow, Boscurvis Pelly United Church Penzance United Church Piapot United Church Portreeve United Church Primate United Church Prince Albert, Wesley United Church Punnichy United Church Raymore United Church Regina, St. Andrew's United Church Regina, Knox-Metropolitan United Church Regina, Rosemont United Church Regina, St. John’s United Church Regina, Westminster United Church Regina, Whitmore Park United Church Riceton United Church Ridgedale United Church Rocanville Methodist Rocanville Presbyterian Rocanville United Church Rosthern St. Andrew’s United Church Rouleau United Church Saskatoon, Bethel United Church Saskatoon, Grace-Westminster United Church Saskatoon, Grosvenor Park United Church Saskatoon, St. Paul's United Church, Sutherland Sceptre United Church

UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 17 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270B – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book I [ca.1975] Shellbrook, Craigmore United Church Shellbrook, Knox United Church United Church Stanley Mission (Anglican) Stoughton, Viewfield United Church Swift Current, Burnham Church Swift Current, Grace United Church Tomkins United Church Trossachs United Church Unity United Church Vonda-Aberdeen Charge Wawota United Church Wawota, Glen Adilaide United Church White Fox, Pinetorch United Church Wilkie United Church Wilkie, Phippen United Church Wilkie, Starview Mission Field Wingard Anglican Wolseley, St. James United Church

A.785.XV.SA.270C – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book II [ca.1975] Includes: Abbey United Church Arcola (South) United Church Ardath United Church Battle Heights - Smoky Burn Mission Field United Church Belbeck, Wesley United Church Birsay United Church Bradwell United Church Briercrest, Blue Hill United Church Cadillac, St. Paul’s United Church Canwood, Trinity United Church Carlyle, Moose Creek United Church Carrot River United Church Chamberlain, Zion United Church Choiceland United Church Colfax United Church UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 18 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270C – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book II [ca.1975] Colgate United Church Colonsay United Church Conquest United Church Crystal Springs, Invergordon United Church Delisle United Church Donavon Knox United Church Dundurn United Church Duval United Church Eatonia United Church Edam United Church Edgeley United Church Elbow United Church Englefeld United Church Ethelton United Church Fertile United Church Feudal United Church Fielding United Church Girvin United Church Glamis United Church Glenavon, St. Andrew’s United Church Glenside, John Huss United Church Govan United Church Hanley United Church Hardy United Church Hawarden United Church Holdfast United Church Humboldt, Westminster United Church Invermay United Church Kerrobert United Church Kinistino, St. Andrew’s United Church Kinley, Hope Hall United Church Kinley United Church Kipling, Landsdowne United Church (Kipling-Windthorst Mission Field) Kipling United Church Lacadena United Church Lancer, Trinity United Church

UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 19 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270C – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book II [ca.1975] Langbank, Golden Plain, Poplar Grove Liberty, Bethel United Church Lockwood United Church Loreburn and Bonnie View Lumsden United Church Macoun United Church Major United Church Maple Creek, Motherwell Ladies Aid Society Maymont, Sharon United Church Meadow Lake United Church Mervin United Church Milestone United Church Moose Jaw, Grace United Church Moose Jaw, Zion United Church Moosomin, Bethel United Church Morse-Chaplin Pastoral Charge Mortlach Mission Field , Bethany United Church Neidpath United Church Osage United Church Oungre United Church Outlook, St. Andrew’s United Church Pense, St. Andrew’s United Church Perdue United Church Petaigan United Church Pleasantdale United Church PCTC [Prairie Christian Training Centre] Qu'Appelle, Knox United Church Regina Beach United Church Regina, Calvin Presbyterian / Sherwood United Church Regina, Carmichael United Church Regina, St. James United Church Regina, Sunset United Church Richard (Maymont Parish) Richardson United Church Saskatoon Presbytery, Chinese Work

UCC Living Skies Region Archives Page 20 of 21 Church Histories Collection United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (formerly Saskatchewan Conference) A.785.XV.SA.270C – Meredith B. Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches, Book II [ca.1975] Saskatoon, Grace-Westminster United Church Saskatoon, McClure United Church Scott United Church Senate United Church Silton United Church Simpson United Church Smeaton United Church Southey United Church Sovereign United Church Speers, Pioneer Memorial United Church Springwater United Church Star City United Church Strasbourg United Church Strongfield United Church Theodore United Church Tugaske and Edgeford, St. Andrew’s United Church Vanguard United Church Viscount United Church Waldeck United Church Wartime United Church Watrous United Church Welwyn United Church Weyburn, Grace United Church Whitewood United Church Wilcox United Church Willmar Church Wishart Woodrow United Church Yellow Grass United Church Yorkton, Orkney United Church Young United Church Zealandia, Muirland United Church

Note: Duplicate copies for volume 1 (A.1084.XV.SC.819) and volume 2 (A.1084.SV.SC.1151) removed, ca.2020.

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