Dec 10, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Archives receives a good number of photographs in the course of a year. Fortunately, many of these photographs are labelled. However, there are some photographs that have no identifying information on them and as you can imagine, it’s not exactly helpful for...
Dec 3, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Gospel Wagon Mission was organized on May 29, 1896 with the purpose of “sending the Gospel to the more isolated and neglected sections of Nova Scotia.” David Herd, Hanisworth, and Thomas Turnbull operated the wagon. The Wagon team visited communities...
Nov 26, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
I’m not trying to be controversial here and don’t get me wrong, I love chocolate chip cookies just as much as anyone else, but don’t you sometimes wish cookie recipes would be a little more varied or interesting? Like “Scratch Me Back” or...
Nov 19, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The archivist in me was super excited when I stumbled across the following document. And yes, the words archivist and excitement can occur in the same sentence… This is an inventory of the furniture of the Methodist manse in Liverpool in 1842 and was found in...
Nov 5, 2013 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Looks like the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s was alive and well in Amherst, Nova Scotia! This is a photograph from Trinity-St. Stephen’s United Church. Although there was no label on the back, perhaps these babies were being baptized on that particular...
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