Previous denomination Methodist Founded 1871 Phone +1 780-428-1818 Founder Robert Terrill Rundle | Website mcdougallunited.com Province Alberta Architectural style Italianate architecture | |
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Location 10086 MacDonald Drive NW
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2B7 Denomination United Church of Canada Former name(s) McDougall Methodist Church Address 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 2B7, Canada Similar Robertson‑Wesley United Church, Francis Winspear Centre for, All Saints' Anglican Cathedral, Northern Alberta Jubilee A, McLeod Building | ||
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The McDougall United Church is a church located in Downtown Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, at 10086 MacDonald Drive NW.
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History
McDougall United Church was founded as a Methodist church in Edmonton. Methodists started coming to Alberta in 1840, when Robert Rundle came to Fort Edmonton. He was an itinerant missionary, later another missionary by the name of Peter Campbell came to Edmonton in the 1860s. It was still 10 years before Edmonton had a resident Methodist. George McDougall established a school in 1871, to teach English to the children of the Hudson's Bay Company employees, because the most used languages then were French, Gaelic, and Cree.
The McDougalls were a family of Methodist missionaries: George and his son John started missions to the native people in Pakan (north east of Edmonton), and Morley (west of Calgary). After the smallpox epidemic of 1870, in which many of the McDougall women and children died, the survivors moved to Edmonton before moving to Morley. The second Methodist church was built in 1892 and called "McDougall Church" in honour of the now deceased founder. The brick McDougall Church, was built in 1910 and dedicated to the honor of George McDougall.