Title & Author:

Prairie spirit : perspectives on the heritage of the United Church of Canada in the west / Dennis L. Butcher [and others], editors.

Publication:

[Winnipeg] : University of Manitoba Press, ©1985.

Description:

xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the United Church of Canada.
Includes bibliographical references.
Guided tour of church architecture in the Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario: a photo essay / Donald Ross -- British Methodists and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1840-1854 / Gerald Hutchinson -- As others saw us / John Badertscher -- John Black / James D. Marnoch -- James Robertson and Presbyterian Church extension in Manitoba and the North West, 1866-1902 / Catherine Macdonald -- Woodsworths: James and J.S. -- father and son / Benjamin Smillie -- Congregationalism in Manitoba, 1879-1937 / J. Clark Saunders -- Head, heart and purse: the Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society in Canada, 1876-1925 / Margaret E. McPherson -- John Mark King: first principle of Manitoba College / Gordon Harland -- "Keeping Canada God's country": Presbyterian school-homes for Ruthenian children / Michael Owen -- Nellie L. McClung: a part of a pattern / Carol L. Hancock -- Salem Bland and the spirituality of the social gospel: Winnipeg and the West, 1903-1913 / Richard Allen -- Labour church in Winnipeg / Vera Fast -- Principal J.H. Riddell: the sane and safe leader of Wesley College / Gerald Friesen -- Heritage of healing: Church hospital and medical work in Manitoba, 1900-1977 / Raymond R. Smith -- Church union and western Canada / N. Keith Clifford -- Chinese United Church of Winnipeg / Raymond R. Smith -- George Roddick: a man with a dream / Murray McPherson -- Cadurcis: a very rural church / Hartley Harland -- Dand United Church / J. Clark Saunders -- Blest be the tie / Sue Obee -- Long goodbye to the Mother Church / Ian Macdonald -- Appendix I: Guide to the United Church Archives, Conference of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario / Catheine Macdonald -- Appendix II: Central Archives of the United Church of Canada: a bibliographic note on Manitoba and northwestern Ontario / Neil Semple.

Resources:
French equivalent / Équivalent français

ISBN:

0887556140 (pbk.)
9780887556142 (pbk.)

Subject:

United Church of Canada History.
Église unie du Canada Histoire.
United Church of Canada.
Vereinigte Kirche von Kanada
United Church of Canada Canada, Western History.
Geschichte
Aufsatzsammlung
Church architecture Canada, Western.
Prairie Provinces Church history.
Provinces des Prairies Histoire religieuse.
Prairie Provinces.
Canada Church history Collected works.
Prärieprovinzen

Form/genre:

Souvenir publications.
Church history.
History.

Added entries:

Butcher, Dennis L. (Dennis Lloyd), 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 182019
Call No.: BV9881 .P7 1985
Status: Available