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This stately church at the corner of Nassau Street and Wardlaw Avenue in Winnipeg, designed by local architect J. H. G. Russell, started life in 1910 as Fort Rouge Methodist Church. It was renamed Fort Rouge United Church following the 1925 unification of Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian denominations in Canada.
Following a two-year trial period, from July 1935 to July 1937, the congregations of Fort Rouge Methodist Church and Crescent Congregational Church (whose building had been located at the corner of Arbuthnot Street and McMillan Avenue) formally merged in this building, which became known as Crescent - Fort Rouge United Church.
An honour roll tablet commemorating members of Crescent Congregational Church who served overseas during the First World War was unveiled on 6 November 1921 at a special evening service at the church. It was unveiled by Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Godson-Godson. It was later moved to this church, along with Honour Rolls for Central Congregational Church and Fort Rouge Methodist Church.
Period
Cleric
1910-1912
Rev. E. R. Weeks
1912-1914
Rev. J. G. Hindley
1915-1918
Rev. James McKenzie
1919-1924
Rev. George A. Dickson
1924-1926
Rev. J. E. Ramsden
1927-1933
Rev. J. F. Stewart
1933-1935
Rev. R. McElroy Thompson
Period
Cleric
1887-1889
Rev. Eanos Langford
1889-1890
Rev. Andrew Stewart
1890-1892
Rev. James Endicott
Rev. Walter A. Cooke1892-1893
Rev. William Norman Jamieson
1893-1896
Rev. Frederick Earnest Fletcher
1896-1899
Rev. Samuel Robert Brown
1899-1903
Rev. W. L. Armstrong
1903-1907
Rev. Joseph Hendy Morgan
1907-1909
Rev. Walter E. Prescott
1909-1913
Rev. Henry Irvine
1913-1917
George Fletcher Salton (1858-1943)
1917-1921
Rev. W. L. Armstrong
1921-1926
Rev. Edward F. Church
1926-1931
Rev. Charles Edward Bland (c1864-1940)
1931-1935
Rev. Allworth Eardley
Period
Cleric
1935-1939
Rev. R. McElroy Thompson
1939-1945
Rev. William M. Grant
1945-1974
Rev. George Fraser Dyker (?-1974)
1974-1976
Rev. James Esek Stewart (1901-1986)
1976-1981
Rev. Ernest P. Johnston
1981-1982
Rev. Donald W. Hilton
1982-1984
Rev. Kenneth David Howlett
1984-1989
Rev. Donald W. Hilton
1989-1994
Donald Eskdale
1994
David Barrows
1994-1995
David Alvares
1995-2005
Patricia Wotton
2005-2006
Paul Peters Derry
2007-?
Irene Greenwood
Crescent - Fort Rouge United Church (April 2015)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Interior of Crescent - Fort Rouge United Church (April 2017)
Source: George Penner
Interior of Crescent - Fort Rouge United Church (April 2017)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.87611, W97.14752
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
Parkyn Sydney Bishop
[Eatons, Next of Kin, 108 Battalion]Transportation
1st Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)
2nd Lieutenant
1892
30 November 1917
Thomas Johnstone Logie Butchart
[Fort Rouge Methodist, Next of Kin, Vimy Ridge, Wesley College]Student (Wesley College)
44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
30 April 1897
20 June 1917
School Principal, La Vérendrye School
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Lieutenant
10 April 1886
17 August 1917
George Daniel
[Next of Kin]Bookkeeper
4th Brigade, Canadian Field Artillery
Corporal
26 October 1897
1 October 1917
Hanford Edgar Davidson
[Next of Kin]Telegraph Operator
27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
12 August 1884
26 September 1916
Student-at-Law
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Lieutenant
9 March 1889
15 September 1916
George Elder Mathesius
Clerk
43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
10 March 1895
15 April 1917
Forest H. Mitchell
Civil Engineer
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Lieutenant
1882
6 February 1917
Durward Frederick Peck
[Morris]Bank Clerk
78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
15 December 1896
30 October 1917
Clifton Andrew Peterson
[Next of Kin]Clerk
78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
13 December 1895
30 October 1917
Clerk
8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Lieutenant
2 June 1894
26 September 1916
Edward Silver
[Bank of Montreal, Next of Kin]Bank of Montreal
2nd Battalion, London Regiment
2nd Lieutenant
?
1 May 1918
Fred Irwin Simpson
[Broadway Methodist, Law Society, Next of Kin, Virden, Virden Methodist, Wesley College]Law Student
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Captain
15 April 1893
12 March 1917
Otto Russell Williams
[Gladstone, Kelvin, Law Society, Next of Kin]Student
Canadian Army Service Corps
Driver
27 May 1895
29 May 1917
See also:
MHS Centennial Organization: Crescent Fort Rouge United Church
“Lauds women’s war service: Col. Godson-Godson unveils memorial tablet in Crescent chamber,” Winnipeg Tribune, 7 November 1921, page 6.
A Century of Caring by Crescent Fort Rouge United Church Book Committee, 1983.
Crescent-Fort Rouge United Church, 525 Wardlaw Avenue by Murray Peterson, Peterson Projects, December 2009.
We thank Judith Hudson Beattie, George Penner, and Darryl Toews, for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 18 March 2024
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