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Third Avenue United Church Given New Lease on Life
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Historic Saskatoon church gets new congregation
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Bill Lumsdon was born on March 25, 1918 to Tom and Jane Lumsdon, British immigrants from Alnwick, Northumberland, England in the Glenbogie district near St. Walburg. Perhaps it was divine intervention, but Bill was born because an overbooked Titanic required his mother to book passage on the next ship to Canada. His only sibling, Evelyn, was born on Dec. 22, 1913.
In 1910, Bill s parents immigrated to Canada and settled first in North Battleford. Bill s father and mother took up residence in the northeast part of town (referred to as Chisholm Town) where Tom was able to find work as a construction labourer on the IHC building project, the tallest building in North Battleford. In 1914 Bill s father and three uncles took homesteads in the Glenbogie area, seven miles west of St. Walburg. Home was a log shack with a sod roof, which leaked for days after a good rain. Bill was born here with the assistance of a midwife. He took his early education at the school at the Glenbogie district s
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Art Postle figures one of Saskatoon’s most iconic churches would still have roof problems if not for a fund intended to cover half the cost of repairs and maintenance to designated heritage properties.
Postle, who serves as treasurer for Knox United Church, said the congregation was able to come up with its half of the $20,000 needed to “repoint” bricks on the building’s collegiate gothic exterior almost two decades ago. However, it took a major fundraising effort to generate the church’s share of a roughly $100,000 roof repair job about 10 years later.
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It s woefully underfunded : City heritage program has not seen significant funding increase since 1996
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