Fonds PR3471 - Methodist Church Lethbridge District fonds

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Methodist Church Lethbridge District fonds

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    PR3471

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    • 1915-1918 (Creation)

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    0.02 m of textual records

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    (1907-1925)

    Administrative history

    Lethbridge District, a court of the Methodist Church, was established in 1907 under the jurisdiction of Alberta Conference. The bounds of the district included circuits in the vicinity of Lethbridge, Alberta and changes over time are documented in the year books published by the Methodist Church.

    As with all Methodist Church districts, Lethbridge 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.

    Lethbridge District continued to exist until 1925 when the Methodist Church united with the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Congregational Churches of Canada to form the United Church of Canada and the new entity known as Lethbridge Presbytery was formed.

    Custodial history

    Records deposited under accession number PR1975.0387 were acquired sometime prior to 1975 however there is no surviving record of the details.

    Scope and content

    The fonds consists of minutes of annual Ministerial Sessions and District Meetings (1916-1918) and Sunday Schools statistical data (1915-1918).

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    Immediate source of acquisition

    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.

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    The materials have been arranged chronologically and in accordance with the congregational series arrangement plan.

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        The material is in English.

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        None

        Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

        Subject to the Copyright Act. Permission for use required. See Conference Archivist.

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        Inventory is available.

        Associated materials

        For additional materials 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.

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        Further accruals are not expected.

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        Information in the Administrative History was sourced from the fonds.

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        Includes the following accession: PR1975.0387.

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