Biggar Pastoral Charge

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Biggar Pastoral Charge

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1925–

History

Biggar Pastoral Charge was formed in 1925 as a new United Church charge, part of Wilkie Presbytery and consisting of Third Avenue United Church, in Biggar, Saskatchewan. Third Avenue United had been originally built in 1910, as a Union Church, with a congregation of Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists. Early pre-1925 rural preaching points had also included Salter, Lett and Monarch. (By 1936, Monarch was a separate Pastoral Charge, with points at Kensmith, Gagenville and Wilson Lake). Around 1940, Biggar Pastoral Charge included preaching points at Crane Creek, Naseby and Salter, though these three returned to Cando Pastoral Charge sometime before 1946. (Cando Pastoral Charge would eventually join with Landis Pastoral Charge.)

In 2000, the charge became part of Prairie Pine Presbytery and, with the 2018 reorganization, it continued into the new Living Skies Regional Council.

Places

Third Avenue United Church (Biggar, SK)

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

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.

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

United Church of Canada, Living Skies Regional Council (2019–)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0040

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

2019–

Description of relationship

Related entity

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

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0033

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

2000–2018?

Description of relationship

Related entity

Adams, Melvin Henry (1917–1998)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0183

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1962–1971

Description of relationship

Minister

Related entity

United Church of Canada Rosetown Presbytery (1949–2000)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0025

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1961?–2000

Description of relationship

Related entity

United Church of Canada Wilkie Presbytery (1925–1961)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0030

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1925–1961?

Description of relationship

Access points area

Subject access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0446

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2021: drafted for MemorySask.
2023: revised in MemorySask.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

"Biggar United Church" in "Early History of Saskatchewan Churches (Grass Roots)" vol.1, compiled by Meredith B. Banting, ca.1975, pp.161-162; UCC Sask. Conference Records of Proceedings; UCC Year Books.

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