Historic Sites of Manitoba: First Presbyterian Church / Oak Lake United Church (Assiniboine Street, Oak Lake, RM of Sifton)

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Clerics | Photos & Coordinates | Sources

This brick building at Oak Lake, in the Rural Municipality of Sifton, was built in 1900 and dedicated at a Presbyterian service on 18 November 1900 presided over by Reverend George Bryce. In 1920, the congregation merged with that of the Oak Lake Methodist Church (established 1887) to form a Union church that, in 1925, became Oak Lake United Church.

Clerics

Period	Cleric
1887-1897	D. H. Hodges
1897-1905	W. A. Maclean
1906-1914	John A. Cormie (1877-1947)
1915-1917	S. H. Sarkissian
1917-1921	A. W. Churchill
1921-1926	J. S. Millar
1926-1931	Thomas Merryweather
1931-1937	D. D. Millar
1937-1940	Robert W. K. Elliott
1940-1944	Frederick William Lee (1880-1974)
1944-1948	H. N. Burgess
1948-1949	W. Bill
1949-1950	K. McKillop
1950-1954	James M. Wilson
1954-1957	Robert McPherson
1957-1959	William Senior
1959-1967	Murray Wenstob
1967-1970	Carol Robert
1970-1971	William Hunter
1971-1972	Glen Whetter Don McIntyre
1972	Murray Lake
1972-1977	Gordon Stevenson
1977-1981	Harvey Hurren

Photos & Coordinates

Postcard view of First Presbyterian Church at Oak Lake (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2022-0034 Oak Lake United Church (September 2011) Source: Gordon Goldsborough Oak Lake United Church (May 2022) Source: Rose Kuzina Interior of Oak Lake United Church (October 2017) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.76831, W100.63264 denoted by symbol on the map above

Sources:

Ox Trails to Blacktop by Oak Lake History Committee, 1982, pages 132-134.

We thank George Penner and Rose Kuzina for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 14 October 2023

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