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CALDER, WILLIAM CALDWELL (1852-1932)

CALDER, WILLIAM CALDWELL, Presbyterian minister, Loggieville, 1896-99; b. Halifax, 6 Aug 1852, s/o David Calder and Maria Caldwell; m. 1879, Alice Mary Crump, also of Halifax; d. Revelstoke, B.C., 9 Sep 1932.

William C. Calder was educated at Dalhousie University (1879-83) and trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax. He was ordained in 1886 and served in churches in St John and Charlotte counties in New Brunswick before being inducted, in August 1896, as the first resident Presbyterian minister at Loggieville. The Black Brook, or Loggieville, mission field had been organized in 1895, and a congregation was formed in March 1896. A church was not built until 1903-04, however, and Calder's sermons were preached in the Black Brook schoolhouse.

Calder remained in the charge for three years but became acutely unhappy with his situation and quit when a suitable opportunity arose. In a farewell sermon preached to a full schoolhouse on 12 November 1899, during a raging snowstorm, he "very frankly and emphatically gave the people a piece of his mind," saying that they were "untruthful and unstable" and that he hoped they would repent and treat their next minister better. The Loggieville correspondent for the Miramichi Advance explained that Calder was "a man of marked individuality," who "expressed himself fearlessly on most matters of importance."

Two days after he delivered his parting remarks Calder left for British Columbia, where he was appointed minister of the Presbyterian church at Revelstoke. Several months later his wife, Alice M. Crump, and their nine children joined him, and they made their permanent home there.

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[b] Calder family data [m] Presb. Witness 1 Nov 1879 [d] official records / Advance 16 Nov 1899; Advocate 5 Aug 1896, 22 Nov 1899; Fraser (L); Times 28 May 1954; Walkington


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