Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McLachlan, John
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- McLachlan, Rev. John
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1882–1964
History
John McLachlan was a Methodist and later United Church minister in Saskatchewan and Ontario. He was born and raised in the fishing village of Tarbet, Scotland. He immigrated to Canada, and was a probationer in Adanac, Saskatchewan, in 1909, before being ordained, in 1910. He studied at Wesley College, Winnipeg, 1911-1915, and served charges in Saskatchewan and Ontario until he retired in 1953.
Places
Manitoba (1910?-1914); Venn (1914-1916), Watrous (1917-1918), Pheasant Forks (1919-1922), Briercrest (1923-1925), Tuxford (1924-1928), Buffalo Lake (1929-1930), Moose Jaw (1931-1935), Carlyle (1936), Saskatchewan; Ontario (1937-1963)
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Methodist minister (1910-1925), received on trial/ordained 1910; student at Wesley College, Winnipeg (1911-1914); United Church minister (1925-1964), retired 1953.
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Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
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Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Maintained by
Institution identifier
SCNUCSC
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Draft
Level of detail
Partial
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2018: drafted for SAIN.
2021: revised in MemorySask, with additions from UCC Archives (Toronto).
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Biographical file "McLachlan, John" (ref. no. A.676.XX.McLachlan), UCC Sask. Conference Archives; Douglas Walkington, United Church Ministers 1925-1980; United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto) entry "McLachlan, John, 1882-1964", https://catalogue.unitedchurcharchives.ca/mclachlan-john-1882-1964; UCC Year Book 1965, vol. 2, p.179.