| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR3464 | | TITLE: | Methodist Church Edmonton Central District fonds | | CREATOR: | Methodist Church Edmonton Central District | | DATE RANGE: | 1915-1918 | | EXTENT: | 0.01 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Edmonton Central District, a court of the Methodist Church, first appears in the 1914 Methodist Year Book under the jurisdiction of Alberta Conference. The district appears to have been erected as the district encompassing the stations within Edmonton proper, previously situated under Edmonton East and Edmonton West Districts. Edmonton Central District appears to have functioned until ca. 1918, when it ceases to be listed in the Methodist Year Book, with the urban stations returning to their previous situations under either Edmonton East or Edmonton West Districts.
As with all Methodist Church districts, Edmonton Central District had oversight of the Methodist congregations within its bounds, and for clergy, laymen, the examination of students, church property, finances and social work. Officers of the district included the Chairman and a number of secretaries, including Financial, Journal, Statistical, Evangelism and Social Service, Missionary, and Religious Education Secretaries.
| | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Records deposited under accession number PR1975.0387 were acquired sometime prior to 1975 however there is no surviving record of the details. In 1975, the Conference entered into a permanent loan agreement with the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) for the physical custody and control of the holdings of the Conference Archives and the records were relocated to the PAA in that same year. Records received after 1975 have come from the congregation, church members, or officers of the presbytery or the Conference. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of minutes of annual Ministerial Sessions and District Meeting minutes, statistics, and finances (1915-1918). | | RELATED RECORDS: | For more information please see the Methodist Church Alberta Conference fonds PR3460 in the United Church of Canada Alberta and Northwest Conference Archives, located at the Provincial Archives of Alberta. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information in the Administrative History was sourced from the fonds. |
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