Dickin, Joyce

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Dickin, Joyce

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • Dickin, Margaret Joyce

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1918–1993

History

Margaret Joyce Dickin was born in Beulah, Manitoba in 1918. She graduated from the United Church Training School in Toronto in 1950 and pursued Sunday School work in Toronto, then the Saskatchewan Conference, and then in Regina. She entered the ministry in 1957 after graduating with a B.A. from the University of Saskatchewan, and studying theology at St. Andrew’s College and Drew University. Rev. Dickin served eight charges in seventeen years including: Strasbourg, Radisson, Saltcoats, Semans, Regina and Houston, B.C.

Places

Manitoba; Ontario; Strasbourg (1959-1960), Radisson (1964), Saltcoats/Bredenbury (1965-1968), Langenberg (1969), Semans/Raymore (1972), Regina (1973-1993), Saskatchewan; British Columbia (1970-1971)

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

United Church deaconess, designated 1951; United Church minister (1959-1984?); Editor, Queen's Printer (1976-1980); Civil Servant (1981-1983); co-author of "In Praise of Prairie Women: Compilation of Histories to Honour Prairie Church Women" ca.1983.

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Regina Rosemont Pastoral Charge (1925–ca.1932, ca.1936–2012)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0248

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1973–1975

Description of relationship

Minister

Related entity

United Church of Canada, Saskatchewan Conference (1925–2018)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0001

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1959–1980?

Description of relationship

Minister

Related entity

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

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0072

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Deaconess, designated at 1951 meeting.

Access points area

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0292

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2018: drafted for SAIN.
2021: revised in MemorySask, with details from UCC Archives (Toronto).

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

The Corridor of Time: A History of the Saskatchewan Conference Branch of the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Church of Canada, 1905-1961 (compiled by Esther Holmes), ca.1961, p.38; United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto) authority record "Joyce Dickin", https://catalogue.unitedchurcharchives.ca/m-joyce-dickin-1918-1993; Douglas Walkington, United Church Ministers 1925-1980, p.193; Walkington, United Church Ministers 1981-1985, p.41.

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