| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR3495 | | TITLE: | Presbyterian Church in Canada Synod of Alberta fonds | | CREATOR: | Presbyterian Church in Canada Synod of Alberta | | DATE RANGE: | 1907-1925 | | EXTENT: | 0.07 m of textual records | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | The Presbyterian Church in Canada Synod of Alberta was erected by the General Assembly on June 14, 1906. Previously, presbyteries in the region were administered as part of the Synod of British Columbia and Alberta, (originally erected as the Synod of British Columbia in 1892). The boundary for the division in 1906 of the two synods was the provincial boundary.
The Synod had oversight of the work and life of the Church in Alberta. Its primary functions included oversight of presbyteries within its bounds, designations of new congregations, oversight of ministry and candidates, authorization of calls by congregations, the review of church records, and the receipt of reports from various standing committees on home missions, foreign missions, statistics and finance, Sunday Schools, church life and work, Young People's Societies, church property, and colleges. As with all synods, its officers included a moderator, a clerk, a treasurer, and clergy and elders.
The Synod of Alberta was originally comprised of the Presbytery of Calgary, Presbytery of Edmonton, Presbytery of Macleod, and Presbytery of Red Deer. By 1925, the Synod also included the Presbyteries of Medicine Hat, High River, Castor, Lacombe, Vermilion and Peace River.
In 1925, The Presbyterian Church in Canada united with The Methodist Church and The Congregational Churches of Canada to form The United Church of Canada. The Synod of Alberta was dissolved in 1925 when its members joined The United Church. As the Presbyterian vote in favour of Union was not unanimous, The Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Synod of Alberta continued to exist after 1925 for those Presbyterian members who did not join The United Church of Canada.
| | 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. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of minutes (1907-[1925]); digests of proceedings (1909-1924); Home Mission Committee minutes, (1907-1910); miscellaneous notes ([ca. 1923-1924]); historical data ([1907]-1925); publications (1914-1916); charges and preaching places ([1925]); synod roll and committee members, ([1921-1925]); reports ([1921]); and a resolution (1919). | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | Post-Union records of The Presbyterian Church in Canada are located at The Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives and Records Office, Toronto. | | RELATED RECORDS: | For additional materials please see the fonds of the regional Presbyteries of the pre 1925 Presbyterian Church PR3487-PR3494 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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