United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • Saskatchewan Conference W.M.S.

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1926–1962

History

The United Church of Canada was created in 1925, from the union of Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregationalist and Local Union churches. The women’s organizations from the uniting denominations at the time included: the Canada Congregational Woman's Board of Missions (mostly in eastern Canada, since 1886); the Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church (founded 1876); the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Eastern Division (founded 1825) and Western Division (founded 1876); along with their various corresponding regional and local units. Soon after union, these became national, regional and local units of the United Church of Canada Woman’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.).

The new Society had its first annual meeting in 1926. Like the earlier societies, it brought the message of missions before the entire community of the Church, while offering financial support and personnel to its own wide mission programme.

In 1962, United Church W.M.S. and W.A. organizations across the country amalgamated to form the United Church Women (U.C.W.). Presbyterial and local groups developed along similar lines to national bodies, becoming local and presbyterial U.C.W. units in January 1962.

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General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Cote Day School (1928–1940)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0157

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1928–1940

Description of relationship

Related entity

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

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0001

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

ca.1926–1962

Description of relationship

Related entity

McKechnie, Mary S. (1867–1959)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0084

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1926–1959

Description of relationship

Member, President (1926-1927)

Related entity

Round Lake Residential School (1887–1950)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0155

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

1925–1950

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

Related entity

Smeaton Hospital (ca.1933–1951)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0161

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Related entity

Wakaw Hospital (1906–1942)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0162

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Related entity

Dickin, Joyce (1918–1993)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0292

Category of relationship

associative

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Deaconess, designated at 1951 meeting.

Related entity

United Church Women, Saskatchewan Conference (1961–2012)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0142

Category of relationship

temporal

Type of relationship

United Church Women, Saskatchewan Conference

is the successor of

United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

Dates of relationship

1962

Description of relationship

Related entity

Presbyterian Woman’s Missionary Society, Synod of Saskatchewan (1915–1926)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0071

Category of relationship

temporal

Type of relationship

Presbyterian Woman’s Missionary Society, Synod of Saskatchewan

is the predecessor of

United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

Dates of relationship

1926

Description of relationship

Related entity

Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch (1909–1926)

Identifier of related entity

SCAA-UCCS-0070

Category of relationship

temporal

Type of relationship

Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

is the predecessor of

United Church Woman's Missionary Society, Saskatchewan Branch

Dates of relationship

1926

Description of relationship

Access points area

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

SCAA-UCCS-0072

Institution identifier

SCNUCSC

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Draft

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2017: drafted for SAIN
2018-February: revised

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; C.T. McIntyre, "Unity Among Many: The Formation of the United Church of Canada, 1899-1930", in "The United Church of Canada: A History" (edited by Don Schweitzer), 2012; United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto) entry "United Church of Canada. Woman's Missionary Society," in Archeion database (Archives Association of Ontario).

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