Hardy, Ralph Willard

Identity area

Type of entity

Person

Authorized form of name

Hardy, Ralph Willard

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • Hardy, R.W.

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1890–1987

History

R.W. Hardy was a Methodist and later United Church minister, who served congregations in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. He was born in 1890 and spent his childhood in Ontario, before attending the University of Toronto. He was ordained and married in June 1921, in Whitby, Ontario. He moved west and was assigned by the Methodist Church to the hospital in Hafford, Saskatchewan. From 1925 to 1930, Hardy served as a United Church minister in Speers and then Maymont, before transferring to Cranbrook, B.C.

Places

Hafford (1921-1925?); Speers (1925-1926); Maymont (1927-1930); Cranbrook, B.C. (1931-1989); Vancouver (1940-1954); White Rock (1955-1985).

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Methodist minister (1911-1925); United Church minister (1925-19?).

Mandates/sources of authority

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Maymont Pastoral Charge (1925–)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0317

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1927–1930

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

1925–1930

Description of relationship

Related entity

Hafford Hospital (ca.1922–1941)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0160

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Access points area

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0079

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2017-October: drafted for SAIN.
2021: revised in MemorySask.

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

R.W. Hardy, “Memories of Speers and Maymont”, in biographical file (A.676.XX.SC.Hardy), UCC Sask. Conference Archives; Douglas Walkington, United Church Ministers 1925-1980, p.303; UCC Year Book 1987, p.27.

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