Dawson Gospel Hall, YT

Dawson Gospel Hall is the first (and possibly last) assembly in the Yukon, in Canada. There is a partial article below that explains the origins (missing the other pages) as from a young lady employed by the territorial government that started a Sunday School in 1946, that was joined in 1948 by Mr. & Mrs. L. Van Stienberg that moved there and started a weekly radio broadcast, and had their first Gospel meeting on Nov. 7, 1948 in a rented building, with a handful of others gathered from the broadcast. In the early 1950's they acquired an old post office building for meetings, which was one of a few locations.

A.N. Nordale, whose family hailed from either England or Scotland, and either way, both families had been present since the founding days of the Yukon territory, served as a correspondent from at least 1954 thru 1958, replaced by William D. Taylor who served 1959-1964. There was no correspondent listed 1965-1971, and ceased to be listed by 1972.

By 1959, the meeting times were listed as:

Sunday

• Breaking of Bread 10.15 am
• Sunday School 12:15 pm
• Gospel Meeting 8 pm

Tuesday

• Prayer & Bible Study 7:30 pm

Sources

• "The Yukon Territories" by Stanley King, The Fields, June 1955, p. 152;
• Ancestry.com
• North American assembly address books 1954-1971