Aug 1, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Conference Quartet of 1968 consisted of Aubrey Moore, Lewis Murray, Al Reynolds, and George MacLean. They sang at annual meeting and also toured the Maritimes.
May 22, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Early ministers did not have the advantage of staying long in one place. They were required to move on to new pastorates at least every three years. Thomas Allen (1841-1936) was a Methodist minister stationed in Petitcodiac from 1870-1873 with a grand total of 12...
May 8, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Rev. Hugh Dunbar, a Presbyterian minister who taught school at Norboro, was instrumental in the formation of the Summerfield church in PEI. Construction of a church building was started in 1855 on land donated by Peter Sinclair. This building was moved in 1888 and...
Apr 24, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Halifax Free Church College (1848-1878) was established by the Free Church Presbyterians in Halifax in 1848. There were three students enrolled in 1848. By 1860, twenty six had graduated from the school. When the Seccession and Free Church Presbyterians merged in...
Apr 17, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
On the first weekend of August 1953, more than 80 men from all over the Maritimes gathered at Camp Berwick in Nova Scotia for the first conference of Maritime United Church Men. O.R. Crowell served as chair of the conference while J.A. MacGregor, Ralph Herman, and Dan...
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