The Young People's Union (Y.P.U.) of the United Church and its Conference-level units were organized around 1935, following the recommendation of the Interprovincial Young People's Council (1934). Saskatchewan Conference's Y.P.U. appears to have been formed sometime after the first National Y.P.U. Council, in mid-1935.

In 1965, the United Church Y.P.U. and its constituent Conference- and Presbytery-level groups appear to have been reorganized to form units of Kairos.

Moose Jaw College was initially established (by the Presbyterian Synod of Saskatchewan) as a residential college for young men. The cost of the buildings was raised by public subscription and the site officially opened in September 1913, on a 45-acre site near River Park, in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. From 1925 until the early 1930s (when it closed), the principal was Rev. Angus A. Graham.

Elinor Cox was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada on March 25, 1929. Following the completion of a secretarial course, she worked in both Victoria and Calgary. After finishing a degree at the University of Victoria, Elinor moved to Toronto to enroll in the United Church Training School to become a Deaconess. She became a Diaconal Minister in 1982. Elinor held various positions in churches in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Ontario. She eventually retired in Moose Jaw.

Elinor died on January 21, 2013.

Archbishop Monaghan of Regina had asked in 1939 that the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul start a home for older and less financially stable people in Moose Jaw. The building that was requisitioned as St. Anthony’s home was a boy’s college that had been closed since 1931. St. Anthony’s home opened on September 1, 1939 and was home to 20 patients. Two days later, the Department of National Defense requisitioned the building and upgrades were made to its plumbing and electrical systems by the time it was returned to the Sisters of Providence in 1940. St. Anthony’s home reopened on April 11, 1940. A new wing that added 114 nursing beds was constructed in May 1968. During the 1980s and 1990s the administrations of Providence Hospital and St. Anthony’s Home became governed by one Executive Director and one governing board.

Eventually it was decided that St. Anthony’s home and Providence Hospital be merged into one new facility. On May 27, 1995 both St. Anthony’s home and Providence Hospital were closed. The new Providence Place opened on September 19, 1995.

Anna Charlotte Orr was born on October 21, 1887. She married Albert Norman Collard on August 4, 1909. Albert Norman Collard was born on September 23, 1882.

Anna Charlotte Orr died on May 6, 1910. Albert Norman Collard died on November 24, 1946.

The United Church Women (UCW) was formed as a successor group to the Woman’s Missionary Society (WMS) in 1962.

The Sipprell guild of the United Zion Church was formed as a group that followed the values and goals of the UCW, The group met once a month.

Osmund Naverseth was born in Sogndal, Norway on September 25, 1909. He emigrated to Scotsguard, Saskatchewan from Bergen, Norway on March 13, 1928 to farm. He reported for war service with the Royal Norwegian Air Force on June 26, 1942. The Henderson’s Directory for that year lists he and his wife Bertha as living at 476 Selwyn, Moose Jaw. Osmund was struck off strength on October 28, 1942, and honourably discharged on medical grounds in Toronto, Ontario on April 3, 1946 having achieved the rank of leading aircraftman. Osmund received the King Haakon VII medal for his service to Norway during the war.

After the war, Osmund worked as a salesman for the Western Ice Company until the early 1960’s when he became a taxi driver for Amil’s Taxi. Bertha Naverseth died October 2, 1966.

It is not known when Osmund Naverseth died.

Frank Dudley McCulloch was born in 1900.

He was listed in the Henderson’s Directory in 1925 as the President and Manager of a real estate company at 205 - 310 Main Street North in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

He obtained a Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery (M.D., C.M.) from McGill University, and registered with the Medical Council of Canada on July 2, 1925.

In 1939, he was listed in the Henderson’s Directory as a physician at 209 -310 Main Street North in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

McCulloch died September 8, 1939.

Edward Nicholas Hopkins was born Brownsville, Province of Canada, on October 3, 1854. Hopkins came to the Moose Jaw area in 1882, making him one of its first residents. He built his home at 65 Athabasca Street West in 1905.

Hopkins was the first secretary of the Moose Jaw Board of Trade, the president of the Grain Growers Association, and the president of the Dairymen’s Association of the Northwest Territories.

Hopkins married Minnie Latham in Moose Jaw on January 24, 1889.

Running for the Progressive Party, Hopkins was elected to a seat in the House of Commons in a 1923 by-election for the constituency of Moose Jaw, and served in that role until 1925 when he lost in reelection.

Edward Nicholas Hopkins died on July 14, 1935.

Fanny Shepherd was born in Kent, England in 1866, the youngest daughter of baker and operator of a public house, Edward Hopper. Edward Hopper was born in Eastry, England in 1833.

William Shepherd was born on the Island of Sheppy, England in 1862. William originally worked in a butcher’s shop in Canterbury. He and Fanny married in 1887 and had three sons, Will, George, and Charles in Canterbury before moving to Deal in 1894. They had a daughter, Kitty, and sons Harry and Geoffrey in Deal, and a last son Tommie in Ramsgate. After attempting to farm and returning to the butcher business, the family decided to immigrate to Canada. They ended up acquiring 640 acres of land to farm outside of Stalwart, Saskatchewan.

Fanny, an active community leader, gave the leading address for the women’s section of the Moose Jaw Grain Growers’ Convention. She also wrote a regular column titled Mother’s Hens that was published in The Grain Growers’ Guide.

In February 1916, Will Shepherd married Fanny Howland, who hailed from Kent. They had three children, Edgar, Margaret, and Sylvia. Edgar served in the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII, and married Betty Ritchie who passed away in 1983. They had daughters Patricia and Sylvia. Edgar died in 1999. Margaret was born in 1922, and married Gordon McKay. They had two sons, Bill and Paul. Gordon McKay passed away in 1984, and Margaret in 2004 in Moose Jaw where she had lived for most of her life. Sylvia was born in 1928 and married George Gow in 1957. George died in 1980. They had a daughter, Nancy, in 1958, and a son, Richard, in 1962. Sylvia resides in Moose Jaw.

Charles and George Shepherd, sons of William and Fanny, left the family farm in Stalwart to go West in search of land for new homesteads. They started in Maple Creek, but eventually settled South of Cypress Hills and also West Plains. Every family member would eventually move West to join except for the aforementioned William Junior and his wife Fanny.

Charles married Helen Banks and had sons, Jack, in 1922 and Charlie, in 1926. Charles died in July 1926, and his youngest brother Tommie would marry his widow Helen in February 1929. They raised children Joan, Lloyd, and Ruth.

Jack enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1942 and fought in Europe. He contracted tuberculosis in Italy and recuperated for 18 months. He married Mary Mitchell in 1949, and they assumed control of the family ranch in 1950. They had daughters Barbara, Sheila, CIndy, and Susan.

Lloyd went to school for engineering and graduated in 1956. He married Florence Lavers in 1957 and returned to school at the University of Saskatchewan, earning a Phd. in physics in 1963.

George married Irene Thompson in 1927 and had children Gordon and Eleanor. Gordon attended Luther College High School in Regina and then went to Harvard Medical School, and then to Yale. He researched nerve cells and wrote books about his research. He married Grethe Gadegaard and had children Gordon, Kristen, and Lisbeth.