Fonds F1395 - J. Ernest Nix fonds

James Ernest Nix, 1920-2013, was born in Edmonton and trained as a United Church minister. He served at Barrhead and Lamont, Alberta and in Winnipeg before taking up a post at Hillhurst United in Calgary from 1958 to 1968. During his time in Calgary he was active with the Historical Society of Alberta and undertook a great deal of research on the early missionaries in the west. He later served congregations in Ontario and Quebec and was employed for a number of years at the United Church Archives.

His Bachelor of Divinity thesis at the University of Alberta in 1954 was entitled "Pioneers, Patriots and Missionaries", and in 1977 he completed his masters thesis at McGill University entitled "John Maclean's Mission to the Blood Indians, 1880-1889". Ernest was also the author of Missions Among the Buffalo : The Labours of the Reverends George M. and John C. McDougall in the Canadian Northwest, 1860-1876. - Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1960, and editor of Hillhurst's First Sixty Years, 1907-1967 : Hillhurst United Church, Calgary, Alberta. - Calgary, 1967.

Nix and his wife Margaret Latter had four children, Margaret Louise (Andersen), James, Suzanne, and Doug.