McDougall United Church
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| McDougall United Church | |||
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| Denomination | Methodists | ||
| Located |  Edmonton, Alberta
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| Founded | 1910 | ||
| Style | Italianate | ||
| Architect | H.A. Magoon | ||
| Website | [1] | ||
The McDougall United Church is a Methodists church located in Downtown Edmonton at 10086-101 Street.[1]
History
Methodists started coming to Alberta in 1840, when Robert Rundle came to Fort Edmonton. He was an itinerant missionary, later another missionary by the name of Peter Campbell came to Edmonton in the 1860s. It was still 10 years before Edmonton had a resident Methodist. George McDougall established a school in 1871, to teach English to the children of the Hudson's Bay Company employees, because the most used languages then were French, Gaelic, and Cree.[1]
The McDougalls were a family of Methodist missionaries: Gorege and his son John started missions to the native people in Pakan (north east of Edmonton), and Morley (west of Calgary). After the smallpox epidemic of 1870, in which many of the McDougall women and children died, the survivors moved to Edmonton before moving to Morley. the second Methodist church was build in 1892, and later a third one was built. The brick McDougall Church, was built in 1910 and dedicated to the honor of George McDougall.[1]