Register entry 157 - Rev. Alexander Urquhart - Presbyterian Minister
Visited the Bell Farm in October 1884.
Alexander Urquhart / [Urquart] (1854 -____) was born in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland, and moved with his parents to Oxford County, Ontario in 1858. He became a Presbyterian minister active in missionary work in Manitoba and in the North-West Territories.
He initially came out West in 1882 as a student minister at Knox College, Toronto, then was ordained in May 1884 by the Presbytery of Manitoba and began his full-time ministry at Knox Presbyterian Church, Regina on Aug. 12, 1884.
He married Annie Elizabeth Drysdale on June 30, 1885 in Lincoln, Ontario. While they lived in Brandon, Annie was a member of the Brandon Presbyterial Women's Foreign Missionary Society.
While in Regina, he joined the Wascana Lodge # 2 of the Masonic Order, on Dec, 28, 1885.
In 1889 Rev. Urquhart accepted a call to preach at the Presbyterian Church in Brandon, Manitoba.
SOURCES:
Men of Canada, by Wm. Cochrane, 1894, p. 384 - https://archive.org/details/canadianalbummen03cochuoft/page/384/mode/2up?view=theater&q=rev
The History of Regina, by John Weston Powers, 1887, p. 54
Let the Bells Ring: Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 1882-1982, by Dorothy Hayden, 1981, p. 26-28
His Dominion of Canada, 1932, by Edmund H. Oliver, p. 188
Regina Sun, 26 Aug. 2001, p. 16
Manitoba Daily Free Press, 1 June 1891 - Rev. & Mrs. Urquhart to East for holiday and General Assembly in Kingston.
Manitoba Daily Free Press, 3 May 1892, p. 4 - Urquhart sick at home in Brandon.
Calgary Weekly Herald, 22 Feb. 1888, p., 2 - Rev. Urquhart ill
Manitoba Daily Free Press, 8 June 1894, p. 6 - Mrs. (Rev.) Urquhart reference - Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Manitoba Daily Free Press,, 29 March 1982, p. 4 - Mrs. (Rev.) Urquhart reference - Women's Foreign Missionary Society - 1st Vice-President.
Regina Leader, 5 March 1913, p. 13 - Member of Masonic Lodge.
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Frank Korvemaker, Regina, Sask.