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42-660: For more information on the history of the provisional districts, see also Districts of the Northwest Territories The District of Assiniboia was a name used to describe the Red River Colony , mainly for official purposes, between 1812 and 1869. Nominally the district included all of the territory granted in the Selkirk Concession . However, much of this was ceded to the United States in 1818 (from

84-539: A compromise, a small part of the district, consisting mainly of the settled areas, was admitted to Canada as the Province of Manitoba in 1870 though the federal government retained control of crown land and natural resources until 1930. In some accounts of the history of Manitoba, the term Old Assiniboia is used to describe the pre-1870 settlement, though the terms Red River Colony , Red River Settlement and Selkirk Settlement are more common. The (Second) District of Assiniboia

126-614: A corresponding move by Toronto's St. Mary Magdalene . "The Qu'Appelle Liturgy...[w]hile developed for one diocese,...was authorized for use in much of Canada....The influence of the Qu'Appelle Liturgy is notable today in A Melanesian English Prayer Book , where the words of administration of Holy Communion follow the Qu'Appelle model closely in including the phrase 'Do this and know that I am with you.'" Such characteristics remain. The diocese consists of 44 parishes and 109 congregations with 50 full-time, part-time, non-stipendiary and retired clergy in

168-501: A significant Christian presence in the community and there are numerous joint endeavours. The diocese is approximately 15% aboriginal, a somewhat higher figure than in the population at large: the Anglican Church has always had a substantial role in ministry to aboriginal people though not always constructive and positive, certainly in schooling provided to boarders. During the 1998-2005 episcopacy of Duncan Wallace court action against

210-612: A single entity, with no districts, from 1870 to 1882. In 1870, Canada gained control of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company . That same year, a small piece of Rupert's Land was formed into the province of Manitoba , but the rest of the area was merged and renamed the North-West Territories. This region included the vast bulk of Canada's present day landmass and covered an area about

252-640: A somewhat high church ethos (note photographs of interiors of the original pro-cathedral in the town of Qu'Appelle and St Chad's Chapel on the former diocesan property in Regina), with significant early input by religious orders including the Sisters of St John the Divine who operated the St Chad's Qu'Appelle Diocesan School until its closure. On the other hand, during the time of Michael Peers as Dean, Bruce McLeod , then Moderator of

294-481: A time leased back from the provincial crown; the government has now itself sold the former diocesan property for residential and commercial development. (Of special interest on the property is the intended cathedral site laid out at the corner of Broad Street and College Avenue, outlined in caragana hedges.) St Paul's was upgraded to cathedral status in 1973 and a satisfactory 2-manual Casavant Frères pipe organ built in it in 1974. The diocese has historically had

336-422: Is the four parishes of Moose Jaw becoming one in 2003 and occupying the building of St. John's Anglican Church as St. Aidan Anglican Church, of which "[t]he cornerstone was laid in 1909," and "located in downtown Moose Jaw, beside the bus depot at High St. and 1st Ave. East." Churches in small towns seldom have their own clergy unshared with others; parishes tend to have multiple churches sharing clergy. Apart from

378-573: The Dominion Land Survey . This boundary has jogs at each correction line. Any roads built on this boundary are now designated Road 174 West under the Manitoba system or Range Road 1300 under the Saskatchewan system. The north boundary was the 9th Correction Line, approximately 52° north, now also designated Township Road 350. The west boundary was the line between the 10th and 11th ranges west of

420-641: The Treaty of 1818 ) and in 1838 the district was redefined as the circular region within 50 miles of Fort Garry , which was the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. The actual area of settlement, centered at present-day Winnipeg , was limited to the Red River valley between Lower Fort Garry and Pembina, North Dakota , and the Assiniboine River valley between Winnipeg and Portage la Prairie, Manitoba . The District

462-701: The Districts of Franklin, Mackenzie and Keewatin continued to appear on many maps (and continued to exist), by the 1980s the practical governance of the Northwest Territories was divided into four administrative regions : Inuvik , Fort Smith , Keewatin and Baffin . A fifth region, the Central Arctic Region, subsequently called the Kitikmeot , was later carved out of the Fort Smith Region. In 1999,

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504-511: The Districts of Franklin, Mackenzie and Keewatin. Ungava remained a district until 1920, but with no population to administer, this district designation was effectively unused after 1912. The three remaining districts continued to be used for a number of decades, but as control over the territory was moved from departments of the federal government to a centralized government in Yellowknife starting in 1967, they began to have far less use. Although

546-646: The Fourth Meridian. This line, now designated Range Road 110, has jogs at each correction line. The northwest corner of the Assiniboia District is commemorated by a cairn 10 km south of Coronation, Alberta . Between 1876 and 1883, Battleford (in the District of Saskatchewan ) was the territorial capital of the North-West Territories. The territorial capital was moved to Regina , in Assiniboia, in 1883, and on

588-593: The North-West Territories. In 1880, the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was ceded to Canada by the United Kingdom and this land was added to the North-West Territories. As the southern part of the North-West Territories became populated, four districts were created in 1882 for ease of administration; unlike Keewatin, these areas remained a part of the North-West Territories, and thus were formally called provisional districts : The southwestern border of

630-520: The Northwest Territories was reduced to its current size - and the notion of the 'districts' was abolished - with the creation of the territory of Nunavut . The former District of Keewatin, most of the Arctic Islands of the District of Franklin, and a northeast portion of the District of Mackenzie now form Nunavut , with the remainder of Franklin and the majority of Mackenzie forming the current version of

672-577: The Northwest Territories. Diocese of Qu%27Appelle The Diocese of Qu'Appelle in the Anglican Church of Canada lies in the southern third of the civil province of Saskatchewan and contains within its geographical boundaries some 50 per cent of the province's population of one million. The diocese was established by the Synod of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land in 1884 at

714-504: The USA across the border to the south were at times frosty and the Anglican Church was long referred to in some disparagement as "the English Church" by eastern Canadian settlers who perhaps regarded themselves as more authentically Canadian. Growth of the diocese was hindered in early years by a number of factors: Owing to some fairly astonishing corruption by latter day standards, another site

756-512: The United Church of Canada , visited Regina and departed from predecessors by visiting St Paul's Cathedral rather than any local United Church and was widely commented upon by parishioners as having delivered the best sermon they had ever heard. The diocese was an early leader in liturgical revision, first publishing The Qu'Appelle Liturgy for local use in 1969, 16 years before 1985's Book of Alternative Services albeit considerably later than

798-460: The autonomous District of Keewatin was adjusted to conform to the boundaries of the District of Saskatchewan. In 1895, the northern portion of the North-West Territories was divided into four more internal districts for ease of administration: Southampton Island , Coats Island , Akimiski Island , and other islands were ceded to the autonomous District of Keewatin, whereas Boothia Peninsula and Melville Peninsula , which were previously part of

840-681: The autonomous District of Keewatin, were added to the District of Franklin. The North-West Territories shrunk in 1898 when the Klondike Gold Rush necessitated the conversion of the District of Yukon into the autonomous Yukon Territory. Also, the southernmost part of Ungava was ceded to Quebec. The eastern border of Yukon Territory was slightly adjusted, thus exchanging some area with the North-West Territories. The North-West Territories experienced significant adjustments between 1905 and 1906: The Northwest Territories experienced further attrition in 1912: The Northwest Territories now consisted of

882-534: The beginning of European settlement on the Canadian prairies beyond the vicinity of Winnipeg ; it geographically corresponds to the former District of Assiniboia in the then North-West Territories [ sic ]: indeed, until the 1970s it precisely so-corresponded, and included a strip of territory lying over the Alberta provincial boundary once the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta were created in 1905. This

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924-409: The cities and towns as with Roman Catholic parishes though in accordance with historic settlement patterns never in villages or the countryside as historically with Presbyterian and Methodist churches. Urban parishes average about 300 members; rural parishes, about 150 members with two to six congregations. A steady reduction in parishioners has led to churches closing: one particularly drastic instance

966-533: The conspicuous situation of the four former parishes of Moose Jaw merging and retaining only one, as yet there has not been the drastic closing of multiple churches as by the United Church in Regina and elsewhere. Women have always played a significant role in ministry and leadership; when the Anglican Church of Canada finally began ordaining women to the priesthood in 1974 there were already many women deacons occupying

1008-539: The denominations and ethnicities that constitute the vast non-Anglican majority. "In 1964, for reasons of efficiency St. Chad's Theological College amalgamated with Emmanuel College in Saskatoon. Six years later, St. Chad's Girls' School was closed and the diocesan site sold" to the provincial government in the 1980s. The diocesan offices, the former St Chad's Qu'Appelle Diocesan School, the former bishop's palace, an old people's home and other diocesan structures remained, for

1050-569: The diocese acquired a substantial property in Regina on College Avenue east of Broad Street. Meanwhile, the St Paul's, Regina was designated the pro-cathedral in 1944. By 1973 it was clear that the diocese would never be self-supporting — it had been a mission field of the English diocese of Lichfield but this had long since become unrealistic — other than by alienating its only substantial real estate, whose acquisition had been substantially underwritten by

1092-462: The diocese on behalf of long previous students came near to ruining the diocese as occurred in the former Anglican Diocese of Cariboo in the Ecclesiastical Province of British Columbia and Yukon which was formed in 1914, ceased operations on December 31, 2001 after being forced into bankruptcy and was only able to continue as Anglican Parishes of the Central Interior . The Diocese of Qu'Appelle

1134-738: The early days of the Territories. The District of Assiniboia survived in its original geographical configuration as the Anglican Diocese of Qu'Appelle until the 1970s when the portion of the diocese (and former District of Assiniboia) lying within the province of Alberta was ceded to the Diocese of Calgary. Districts of the Northwest Territories The vastness of Canada 's Northwest Territories (spelled 'North-West Territories' from 1870 to 1906 ) meant that for much of its history it

1176-449: The first woman to be elected bishop of an Anglican diocese in Saskatchewan. In the past the Anglican Church on the prairies had a profile, for better or worse and with greater or lesser legitimacy, of being somewhat exclusive. This was never wholly accurate, though it certainly had ample documentation: At one point Bishop Harding, the Church of England Bishop, was quoted at a meeting — when he

1218-473: The formation of the province of Saskatchewan in 1905, Regina became the capital of the province. Its location was chosen by Edgar Dewdney , the territorial lieutenant-governor. Dewdney had reserved for himself substantial land adjacent to the Canadian Pacific Railway line on the site of what became the town, and thereby considerably enriched himself. This was the occasion of a considerable scandal in

1260-596: The original missioning diocese. Today approximately one-half of the civil Province of Saskatchewan 's one million residents live within the diocesan boundaries of Qu'Appelle. However, only some 10,000 of these 500,000-odd people identify as Anglican. Immigration patterns at the outset of settlement determined that the majority of Southern Saskatchewan's people would be German Lutherans and Roman Catholics, Scottish Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, British and American Methodists (the former's ancestors from eastern Canada), Ukrainian Orthodox and Roman Catholics, to name only some of

1302-478: The role of parish minister—particularly in aboriginal parishes—although unable to celebrate Holy Communion and perform various other functions reserved to priests, and these women were immediately ordained and became the priests of their parishes. Women have held the posts of archdeacon, regional dean and honorary Canon of the Cathedral, and in 2021 the diocese elected Helen Kennedy as its first woman bishop, making her

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1344-543: The site of the Territorial headquarters: what became the town of Regina, on a particularly disobliging tract of land, featureless, treeless and waterless. However, the minority English settlers at Qu'Appelle had in any case somewhat alienated the native Canadians among whom they had settled and it was perhaps sensible for the Anglican Church to make a new start in Regina. When it became apparent that neither Qu’Appelle nor nearby Indian Head were going to be an important urban centre

1386-412: The size of western Europe . In 1876, the North-West Territories contracted in size when a large area of 590,932 km (228,160 sq mi), between Manitoba and Ontario and along the entire west coast of Hudson Bay , was established by Canada as a territory named the District of Keewatin . This autonomous territory is not to be confused with the 'districts' which would later be created within

1428-450: Was ceded to the Diocese of Calgary . At the beginning of settlement it was unclear where the District headquarters and territorial capital would be; the diocese selected the then-burgeoning village of Troy (now Qu'Appelle ), some 48 kilometres (30 mi) east of present-day Regina as the cathedral city, and the first pro-cathedral was St Peter's in that village. The original Bishop's Court

1470-518: Was chosen instead. The Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West(sic)Territories, Edgar Dewdney , had acquired substantial landholdings adjacent to the future route of the Canadian Pacific Railway at Oscana —the Cree word meaning "pile of bones" in reference to the plains bison bones scattered around Wascana Creek before the area was populated by non-indigenous people. Dewdney designated it to be

1512-476: Was divided into several districts for ease of administration. The number and size of these territorial districts varied as other provinces and territories of Canada were created and expanded. The districts of the Northwest Territories were abolished in 1999 with the creation of the Nunavut territory and the contraction of the Northwest Territories to its current size. The North-West Territories were administered as

1554-518: Was established by Métis leader Louis Riel to negotiate the admission of the District as a province of Canada . The original proposal, which suggested that the new province consist of all of the fertile belt between Winnipeg and British Columbia , was rejected by the Canadian federal government as it conflicted with their plans to manage the settlement of the Northwest Territories directly. As

1596-546: Was governed by a Hudson's Bay Company -appointed Governor of Assiniboia, who was advised by members of the Council of Assiniboia . In 1869 Rupert's Land , including the District of Assiniboia, was transferred to Canada without consultation of the residents of the settlement. This, and the arrival of Canadian surveyors, led to the Red River Rebellion , in which a Provisional Government and Legislative Assembly of Assiniboia

1638-540: Was imprudently unaware that local Canadians were hearing his remarks — as observing that English Anglican migrants might be more attractive settlers than Presbyterian and Methodist Canadians, occasioning considerable adverse notice and animosity against the English in the general community. In any case, nowadays parishes in the diocese of Qu'Appelle engage in substantial co-operation with Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and United Church of Canada congregations to maintain

1680-513: Was later created (1882) as a regional administrative district of Canada's North-West Territories . Most of it was absorbed into the Province of Saskatchewan in 1905, except for the westernmost quarter, which became part of Alberta . The east boundary of the district coincided with the modern Manitoba–Saskatchewan boundary, the line between the 29th and 30th ranges west of the First Meridian of

1722-589: Was there but subsequently relocated to nearby Indian Head: it is in a verdant rolling parkland immediately adjacent to the Qu'Appelle Valley , amply treed with aspen and birch groves, with spring-fed creeks in lush coulees and plentiful local supplies of water. Relations between the English immigrants of the Anglican pro-cathedral parish in Qu'Appelle and the native-Canadian Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic settlers from Ontario and Quebec as well as numerous settlers from

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1764-409: Was very nearly forced into bankruptcy the same way by litigation on behalf of former students at aboriginal residential schools operated by the church who had credibly brought claims of abuse against them. The claims were ultimately settled nationally — Roman Catholic religious orders and dioceses were also defendants together with the federal crown, on whose behalf churches had managed such schools — and

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