Historic Sites of Manitoba: Zion Methodist Church / Hamiota United Church (45 Birch Avenue East, Hamiota, Municipality of Hamiota)

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This United Church in Hamiota, in the Municipality of Hamiota, was constructed in 1914 for a Methodist congregation, replacing an earlier structure.

Clerics

Period

Cleric

1882

Rev. J. F. Mears

1882-1884

Rev. George Baker

1884

Rev. Myers

1885

George Henry Long (1857-?)

1886-1887

Rev. W. P. McHoffie

1887-1889

Rev. T. B. Beynon

1889

Rev. Taylor

1890-1892

Rev. W. R. Hughes

1892

Rev. W. B. Chegwin

1893

Rev. T. B. Beynon

1894

Rev. William Sommerville

1895-1898

Rev. J. J. Cruikshank

1898-1901

Rev. W. R. Davies

1901-1905

Rev. S. P. Riddell

1905-1906

John Francis Palmer (c1878-1965)

1905-1909

Rev. W. E. Egan

1909-1913

Rev. W. A. McKim Young

1913-1915

Rev. S. East

1915-1918

Rev. Middleton

1918-1921

Robert Erastus Spence (1867-1957)

1921-1924

Rev. R. A. Swyers

1924-1930

Rev. E. Lund

1930-1934

Rev. R. E. McCullough

1934-1940

Rev. T. D. Barnett

1940-1942

Rev. Robert W. K. Elliott

1942-1948

Rev. W. G. Onions

1948-1955

Rev. A. H. E. Barber

1955-1956

Rev. J. F. Douglas

1956-1958

Rev. Ken H. Moffatt

1958-1969

Ralph Clark (1928-2014)

1969-1972

Rev. H. J. Dykman

1972-1974

Rev. D. J. McCrindle

1974-?

Rev. H. N. Lynas

?-?

Rev. Jack William Ballantine-Dickson (?-2023)

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of Zion Methodist Church in Hamiota

Postcard view of Zion Methodist Church in Hamiota (August 1920)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2023-0016

Postcard view of Hamiota United Church

Postcard view of Hamiota United Church (no date) by Charles Ignatious Meyers
Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2024-0058

Hamiota United Church

Hamiota United Church (June 2019)
Source: George Penner

Site Coordinates (lat/long): N50.18205, W100.59723
denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Obituary [John Francis Palmer], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 May 1965.

Hamiota: Grains of the Century, 1884-1984 by Hamiota Centennial History Committee, 1984, page 190.

Obituary [Jack William Ballantine-Dickson], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 February 2023.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and George Penner.

Page revised: 11 April 2024

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