First Presbyterian Church (Edmonton)

First Presbyterian Church (Edmonton)

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location=Edmonton, Canada
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architecture_style=Late Victorian Gothic Revival
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First Presbyterian Church, located at 10025-105th Street is a historic Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation and Gothic Revival church building in downtown Edmonton Alberta Canada. [Munro, Ken, "First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton: A History." Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2004. ISBN: 1412023378 (pbk.)] [ [http://hermis.cd.gov.ab.ca/ARHP/Details.aspx?DeptID=1&ObjectID=4665-0514 Alberta Registered Historic Places ] ] The congregation celebrated its 125th anniversary in November 2006.

The Organizational Meeting for this congregation was held on November 3, 1881, and the first building opened at 104 Street and 99 Avenue a year later. The second structure was completed and dedicated in July 1902 at 103 Street and Jasper Avenue. The present building was completed in November 1912. [ [http://www.ourroots.ca/f/page.aspx?id=858291] Retrieved on June 30, 2007.] In September 1978 this building was designated a Provincial Heritage site. [ [http://tprc.alberta.ca/heritage/resourcemanagement/archaeologyhistory/inventoryprograms/pdf/Edmonton2004.pdf] (pp 28) Retrieved on June 30, 2007. ]

A notable minister was The Rev. David George McQueen, DD, LLD who served for 43 years, starting in 1887 upon graduation from Knox College, University of Toronto, and guided the formation of nurerous congregations in the area. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1912 (hosted by First in the second building) and as "Interim Moderator" in 1925, before Ephraim Scott was elected to resume the "Continuing Presbyterian Church". [ [http://www.presbyterian.ca/archives/Exhibit1page5.html] Archives of the Presbyterian Church. retrieved Dec. 22, 2006] McQueen's predecessor and FPC's founding Minister was Rev. Andrew Browning Baird, DD, who arrived in Edmonton before the arrval of the railway, but left Edmonton for a professorship at Manitoba College (and like his successor, was also PCC Moderator, in 1916).

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