Circuit Preaching in Saskatchewan (Summer, 1926)

Victor Wellington Peters for the four months of vacation from Princeton during the summer of 1926 took an assignment under the United Church of Canada as a circuit preacher in Saskatchewan. He arrives on May 21, 1926.

The people of Shamrock worship in their town hall. "V. W. sweeps it clean of litter and cigarette stubs, moves benches and podium into place, and when the saints arrive, plays the battered piano..

During the summer he will call on parishioners on horse back -- survving on one occasion a violent hail storm while making his calls.

For a good detail of V.W.'s ShPlease read more about V. W. 's experience in Peters Progress' pages 385-389.

Contacts while in Shamrock, Maypole, Lambourne and Bolingbroke, Sakatchewan include:

Mr. N. Ellison who picks up V.W. and boards him the first night with the hired man.

Mr. Henry who loans V. W. a better overcoat.

Mrs. Radatzke, Mrs. Radatzke's grown son and daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Fryer whose home burnt to the ground with only their reed organ surviving.