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| LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds |
| No.: | PR3601 |
| TITLE: | ANWC Heritage Cemeteries Ad Hoc Committee fonds |
| CREATOR: | ANWC Heritage Cemeteries Ad Hoc Committee |
| DATE RANGE: | 2008 |
| EXTENT: | 0.02 m of textual records |
| ADMINISTRATIVE |
| HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Alberta and Northwest Conference Heritage Cemeteries Ad Hoc Committee of the United Church of Canada was established for the purpose of researching and preserving the history of cemeteries in the province established by pioneer communities by denominations that are now part of the United Church of Canada, including Methodist, Congregational, and some Presbyterian sites. The impetus of the committee is to document the cemeteries, many of which are no longer in use, to create cemetery listings, and erect interpretive plaques. In 2010, they supported the work of the Alberta-Ukraine Genealogical Project in documenting eleven cemeteries in East Central Alberta including the Wahstao Mission Cemetery, a Methodist cemetery established in 1908. |
| CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Sheila Johnston, Chair of the committee, deposited the records with the United Church of Canada Alberta and Northwest Conference Archives in 2008. |
| SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of historical research materials regarding the Wahstao Cemetery including a copy of the Kolokreeka Diary describing missionary work ca. 1908-1910; copies of letters written in the 1950s by Edith Weekes and Ethelwyn Chace, early missionaries at Wahstao, discussing early mission work; and colour digital copies of photos taken by Sheila Johnston of the Wahstao Cemetery in 2008. |
| GENERAL NOTE: | Information in the Administrative History was sourced from the fonds and from the Alberta United Church History Blog:
(Accessed July 5, 2011)
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