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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Grace Methodist Church / Elgin United Church (Elgin, Municipality of Grassland)
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Clerics | Photos & Coordinates | Sources
A brick church building at Elgin, in the Municipality of Grassland, was constructed in 1906 as Grace Methodist Church. After the 1925 unification of the Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist faiths in Canada, it became the Elgin United Church. Its records are held at the United Church of Canada Archives.
Clerics
Period
Cleric
1906-1922
?
1922-1926
Hugh Hamilton (1863-1941)
1926-1929
Rev. W. B. Sallons
1929-1930
Rev. P. N. Murray
1930-1933
Rev. D. B. Kennedy
1934-1938
Rev. S. A. Martin
1938-1940
George Henry Hambley (1896-1983)
1940-1949
Rev. W. O. Robinson
1949-1951
Rev. W. G. Crane
1951-1954
Rev. A. J. Johnson
1954-1955
Rev. J. F. Douglas
1955-1958
Rev. G. A. Thomson
1958-1961
Rev. S. H. Brown
1961-1962
Bob Harris
1962-1967
Alistair A. Riddell (1930-2021)
1967-1968
Rev. Harold Ritchie
1968-1969
Rev. Elton Adams
Rev. Percy Laidler1969-1970
Rev. R. Hetherington
1970-1974
Rev. Alan Armstrong
Rev. Cam McMillan1974-1975
Rev. Alan Armstrong
Rev. W. Lockhart1975-1977
Rev. Cam McMillan
1977-1981
Rev. Ewing Rae
1981-1989
Rev. Don McIntyre
1989-1998
Rev. Ron McConnell
1998-?
Rev. John Oldenkamp
Photos & Coordinates
View of churches in Elgin, including the Presbyterian Church at left, United Church in centre, and Anglican Church at right (no date)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2016-0205
Elgin United Church (April 2017)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Elgin United Church (July 2018)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.44588, W100.26768
denoted by symbol on the map above
Sources:
Elgin United Church Fonds, United Church of Canada Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Conference Archives.
Elgin Echoes: Into the Millennium, 1970-1999 by Elgin History Book Committee, 1999, page 13.
We thank Nathan Kramer and George Penner for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 October 2021
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