Evan M. Whidden

Dr. Rev. Evan McDonald Whidden (9 July 1898 in Galt, Ontario - 11 March 1980 in Cornwall, Ontario) was a Canadian Christian minister and academic whose career included being President of Brandon College, [cite web |url=http://www.brandonu.ca/library/archives/old%20Site/Mss%20Inventory/Invent_03.htm |title=Evan Whidden fonds |work=S. J. McKee Archives Accession Inventory 2003 |publisher=Brandon University |accessdate=2008-06-21 ] Dean of Theology at Acadia University [cite book |title=A Genetic History Of Baptist Thought |last=Brackney |first=William H. |year=2004 |publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn=0865549133 |pages=p. 480 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JI_8p6y01xIC&pg=RA1-PA480&dq=%22Evan+Whidden%22&num=100&client=firefox-a&sig=j5zQvwtWJnXniS54_O7YNJ8i-F4 |accessdate=2008-06-21] and chairman of the founding conference of the Atlantic Ecumenical Council. [cite web |url=http://www.etgrafx1.com/The_AEC/Statements.PDF |title=A History of the Atlantic Ecumenical Council |publisher=Atlantic Ecumenical Council |accessdate=2008-06-21 ] An annual scholarship is awarded at Acadia University in his honour. [cite web |url=http://adc.acadiau.ca/_Media/adc_calendar_2008-2009.pdf |title=Awards and Financial Assistance |work=Calendar |publisher=Acadia Divinity College|accessdate=2008-06-21 ]

He was the son of Howard Primrose and Katherine Louise (Ganong) Whidden), [cite web |url=http://www.brandonu.ca/library/archives/old%20Site/Mss%20Inventory/Invent_01.htm#Evan%20McDonald%20Whidden%20fonds |title=Evan McDonald Whidden fonds |work=McKee Archives Accession Inventory 2001 |publisher=Brandon University |accessdate=2008-06-21 ] and married Frances Margaret Billington in 1941.

Evan was listed in the "Canadian Who’s Who" in 1951. [cite book |title=The Canadian Who's who |year=1951 |publisher=University of TorontoPress ]

Career

*1915-1918 World War I, CFA, CEF, France
*1921 educated in Brandon College, Brandon, Manitoba BA
*1921 Reabow, Ontario
*1921-1933 Tabernacle Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba
*1925 McMaster University, Toronto, Ontario MA
*1925 Palmerston, Ontario
*1928 Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, BD
*1928-1935 student pastorates, east end, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
*1934 General Ministry Association, Winnipeg, Manitoba
*1935-1936 Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland
*1936 professor of theology and head of department, Brandon College, Brandon, Manitoba, where he was college president for a time
*circa 1951 Dean of Theology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia; retired 1967.

Evan and Frances had two children:
*Howard John born 22 June 1943.
*Roberta “Robie” Katherine born 13 March 1945. She resided in San Francisco, California.

Evan was the author of:

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