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CHRISTIE, GEORGE ARCHIBALD (1880-1970)

CHRISTIE, GEORGE ARCHIBALD, minister, St Andrew's United Church, Chatham, 1926-30; b. Couva, Trinidad, 2 Feb 1880, s/o the Rev. Thomas McCullough Christie and Georgina Archibald, m. 1915, Emily Louise Rae Mowatt, BA, sister of Edward Everett Mowatt; d. Harvey, N.B., 19 Jul 1970.

The son of a Presbyterian missionary of Nova Scotia origin, George A. Christie was educated at the Halifax Academy and Dalhousie University (BA 1902, MA 1905), where he was a scholarship student. He was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained in 1905, he had charges in Nova Scotia until 1920, except in 1910-11, when he did a year of postgraduate study at the University of Marburg in Germany. In 1920 he accepted the pastorate at Alberton, P.E.I., and he was called from there to Chatham in 1926 as the first minister of St Andrew's United Church.

Christie was stationed at Chatham for four years. When he left in 1930 he returned to the Island. His last church was at St Peter's, N.S. After his retirement in 1949 he supplied the church at Sunny Brae, Pictou Co., N.S. "A great scholar and a devoted servant," he was granted an honorary DD by Pine Hill Divinity Hall in 1943, and he later sat on the seminary's governing board.

During the last ten years of his life Christie and his family made their home in Fredericton. His death in 1970 occurred at a nursing home in nearby Harvey, where he had been a patient for only two weeks. His wife, E. L. Rae Mowatt, two daughters, and two sons survived him. His son G. Howard Christie, who was ordained in the United Church in 1946, was of the fourth generation to serve in the ministry, his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great grandfather all having been ordained clergymen.

Sources

[b/m] UC archives (his submission) [d] Telegraph 20 Jul 1970 / annual 1971; Christie family data; Commercial World 10 Jun 1943, 20 Jun 1946


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