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	Robert James “Bob” Harris (1934-2019)
1962-1967	Alistair A. Riddell (1930-2021)
1967-1968	Rev. Harold Ritchie
1968-1969	Rev. Elton Adams Rev. Percy Laidler
1969-1970	Rev. R. Hetherington
1970-1974	Rev. Alan Armstrong Rev. Cam McMillan
1974-1975	Rev. Alan Armstrong Rev. W. Lockhart
1975-1977	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 Penner Site 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: 10 October 2024

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