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Presbyteries voting for Church Union: Presbyteries are coloured according to the percentage of votes for church union in each presbytery. With the DECISION: % by congregations layer clicked, the colour represents the vote of the congregations (which was the method by which the decision was reached). With the VOTE: % by Popular Votes layer clicked, the colour represents the popular vote. |
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Checkbox controls the visibility of the results of the vote by congregation. Turning this layer on automatically turns off the VOTE: % by Popular Vote layer. |
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Checkbox controls the visibility of the results of the vote by congregation. Turning this layer on automatically turns off the DECISION: % by Congregations layer. |
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Checkbox controls the visibility of the labels for the provinces. |
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Modern geography ( current provincial and territorial boundaries, as well as selected cities) is available for reference. |
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PRESBYTERIES VOTING FOR UNION is always the active layer; use the tools below to get data about this layer. |
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Identify: Click anywhere within a presbytery to get the name of that presbytery. |
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Table: Click or drag a rectangle to select any (or many) of the presbyteries. A table pops up showing: Synod, Presbytery, Congregations for, Congregations against, % Congregations for, Popular vote for, Popular vote against, and % Popular vote for. See Table Fields below. |
| Synod | A geographical grouping of Presbyterian congregations |
| Presbytery | A geographical grouping of Presbyteries |
| Congregations for | The number of individual congregations voting for church union |
| Congregations against | The number of individual congregations voting against church union |
| % Congregations for | The percentage of congregations for church union |
| Popular vote for | The number of individual votes by members of a given presbytery for church union |
| Popular vote against | The number of individual votes by members of a given presbytery against church union |
| % Popular vote for | The percentage of individual votes by members of a given presbytery for church union |
| Prior to union there were 174 Congregationalist, 4 797 Methodist, and 4 512 Presbyterian congregations. Union brought 8 691 of these congregations into the United Church, with 8 Congregationalist and 784 Presbyterian congregations not taking part in union (the continuing Presbyterians claimed that 814 congregations did not take part). The presbytery boundaries shown on the map are generalized and are based on the pastoral charges or mission fields within each presbytery. |
