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Banting, Meredith Black, 1901-1991

  • PA 479
  • Persoon
  • 1901-1991

Meredith Black Banting was born on September 19, 1901 in Rounthwaite, Manitoba. He moved with his family to Manor, Saskatchewan as a teenager. He farmed in Richlea and operated Banting's Machine and Furniture Shop in Kindersley from 1933 to 1942.

In 1942, Banting entered the United Church Ministry. He served as a lay minister in Duval, Saskatchewan while completing high school correspondence classes. He then served as a lay minister in Raymore and Viscount while attending St. Andrew's College in Saskatoon. After his ordination in Moose Jaw in 1948, Banting served numerous parishes in Saskatchewan (Central Butte, Moose Jaw, Broadview, Whitewood, Wapella, Craik) and Alberta (Bow Island, Beaver Lodge). In 1970, Banting retired to Regina, where he was involved with the Westminster United Church's native ministries. He died in Regina on May 20, 1991.

Banting was a life member of the Masonic Lodge in Moose Jaw and the Order of Eastern Star Chapter 7 in Regina. An amateur photographer, Banting also loved music and sang in several choirs. Banting wrote, compiled and edited numerous books, mainly of poetry and reminiscences, and operated Banting Publishers, a small press publishing company, out of his home at 2306 Athol Street in Regina. Banting also produced and hosted several television and radio programs, mainly for children and senior citizens.

Banting married Florence Harper in 1934. The Bantings had one daughter: Anne.

Elmer, Gordon Cyril Dallas

  • PA 597
  • Persoon
  • 1933-2015

Gordon (Gord) Cyril Dallas Elmer was born on May 16, 1933 in Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan. He was raised in Yellow Grass and Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He attended the Saskatchewan Training Centre in Weyburn to train in psychiatric nursing and upon graduation, he was employed at Valley View Centre in Moose Jaw for 36 years.

Gordon Elmer was a self-taught musician who taught private lessons and conducted bands in Loreburn, Assiniboia and Mossbank. He was a guest conductor at the Regina Kiwanis Band camps and served twelve years as the band master with the Saskatchewan Dragoons and five years with the Moose Jaw Lions Band.

Elmer was also an amateur aviation historian who conducted extensive research into the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) and Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) air stations in the Canadian prairies during the 1940s. In 1981, Elmer received $1000 from the Canada Council to compile a history of Saskatchewan air stations in the 1940s. The history was never officially published but is a valuable research source.

Gordon Elmer died in Moose Jaw on May 16, 2015 and is buried in Sunset Cemetery in Moose Jaw. He was married and had four children.

Baker, Lucy Margaret, 1836-1909

  • PA 309
  • Persoon
  • 1836-1909

Lucy Margaret Baker was born at Summertown, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1836. Lucy was young when her mother passed away and she was adopted by her father's sister, Mrs. Buchanan of Dundee, Quebec. She was educated in Dundee, Quebec and Fort Covington, NY. She returned to Dundee to teach and became involved in missionary and Sunday school work in Zion Presbyterian church, pastured by Rev. Donald Ross. Baker also taught in New Orleans during the American Civil War, and later in Lancaster, ON. Her old pastor, Rev. Ross, was heading the school in Lancaster at the time. In 1878, Ross was appointed by the Home Mission Board of the Presbyterian church to go to Prince Albert. The Board asked Baker to accompany Mr. and Mrs. Ross to Prince Albert to teach at the day school started by Rev. James Nisbet.

Baker became the first female missionary of the Presbyterian Church to the Indians of the North-West. She taught at the mission day school until 1885, and then taught at the newly-built Presbyterian high school in Prince Albert for several years. She then moved to teach on the Makoce Waste reserve, a reserve of Sioux Indians from the United States who had taken refuge in Canada in the 1860's. She continued to teach at the reserve until 1905, when she retired due to failing health. She died on May 30, 1909 in Montreal and she was buried in the Zion Presbyterian churchyard in Dundee, Quebec.

A high school in Prince Albert is named after Lucy M. Baker.

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