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Person
Authorized form of name
Dickin, Joyce
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- Dickin, Margaret Joyce
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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)
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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.
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SCNUCSC
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Status
Draft
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2018: drafted for SAIN.
2021: revised in MemorySask, with details from UCC Archives (Toronto).
Language(s)
- English
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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.