DYMENT, ALBERT HATFIELD (1891-1964)
DYMENT, ALBERT HATFIELD, United Church minister, Tabusintac and Burnt Church, 1933-41; b. Northam, P.E.I., 13 Jun 1891, s/o James Dyment and Laura Belle MacArthur; m. 1930, Evelyn Isabel Durning, of Economy Point, N.S.; d. Bible Hill, N.S., 26 Jun 1964.
A. Hatfield Dyment taught school for a number of years in Prince Edward Island and served overseas with the Canadian forces in World War I before finishing his education at Prince of Wales College and Dalhousie University (BA 1921). After graduation he took a teaching position at Naparima College, the secondary school of the Canadian Presbyterian mission in San Fernando, Trinidad. A few years later he enrolled at Pine Hill Divinity Hall in Halifax to study for the ministry. He was ordained in 1927, at age thirty-six.
Dyment had pastorates at Economy and Sherbrooke, N.S., and accepted a call to Tabusintac in 1933. He stayed eight years, and when he left in 1941 he went to Escuminac, Que. He served several other churches in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before retiring at Bible Hill, near Truro, in 1962. He was survived in 1964 by his wife, Evelyn I. Durning, a son, and a daughter.
Sources
[b/m/d] Hist. UC Tabusintac / Advocate 12 Jul 1933; annual 1965; Walkington