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MATTHEWS, WALTER MCNEILL (1885-1969)

MATTHEWS, WALTER MCNEILL, Presbyterian minister, Millerton, 1919-24; b. Alberton, P.E.I., 10 Jan 1885, s/o Anthony Rogers Matthews and Barbara Ann McNeill; m. 1916, Alena Alberta Ward, RN, of Miscou Harbour, N.B.; d. Truro, N.S., 24 Apr 1969.

Walter McN. Matthews moved to Chatham with his parents as a youth and finished his secondary schooling there. He attended the University of New Brunswick (BA 1908) and was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. Ordained in 1911, he had his first pastorate at Bathurst and his second, beginning in 1919, at Millerton, where Grace Church was celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary.

In 1920 Matthews delivered a well-received address on "Canadian Literature" to the Derby Literary Club, which was created by the Rev. Ernest Rowlands. A major event during his term was the loss to fire, on 11 April 1923, of the historic Ferguson Church at Derby, which had been built during the pastorate of the Rev. John Turnbull. It was replaced with the existing Ferguson Church, which was erected under a contract given to Tozer Bros, and formally opened on 23 December 1923.

While he was based at Millerton, Matthews qualified for a degree in theology from Manitoba College (BD 1923). In the winter of 1924 he was called to the First Presbyterian Church in West Saint John. He later had United Church pulpits in Halifax and elsewhere in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. For many years he was a member of the senate of Pine Hill Divinity Hall in Halifax, which conferred an honorary DD on him in 1952. He sat on the board of directors of the Maritime School for Girls and on the Canadian Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Prior to his death in 1969 he was pastor emeritus of the First United Church in Truro. He was survived by his wife, Alena A. Ward, and three sons.

Sources

[b/m] Can. Who's Who 1948 [d] Leader 8 May 1969 / Advocate 28 Jan 1919, 22 Jan 1924; annual 1969; Commercial World 12 Aug 1954; Leader 27 Feb 1920, 28 Dec 1923, 20 Sep 1963; Walkington; World 18 Apr 1923


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