May 6, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Do you ever have those days where nothing seems to go right? You know, the day when the coffee spills; you forget to gas up the car before getting on the highway; or you miss an important deadline. Take heart because these kind of days happened hundreds of years ago...
Apr 22, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Brooklyn Pastoral Charge consists of the appointments of Beach Meadows (Emmanuel United Church), Brooklyn (Pilgrim United Church), and Mill Village (Bethany United Church). All are located in Queens County, Nova Scotia. A Methodist chapel was erected at Mill...
Apr 15, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The following is an excerpt from a diary by an unknown author which was written at the back of a treasurer’s book for St. James Presbyterian (now United Church) in Sheet Harbour. The diary provides a good snapshot of community life in Sheet Harbour during the...
Apr 8, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Blue Rocks-Stonehurst Pastoral Charge contains the congregation of St. Paul’s United Church at Blue Rocks, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. In the 1880s, Presbyterian adherents in the area of Blue Rocks and Stonehurst (also known as Black Rocks) worshipped at St....
Apr 1, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
There, did that title catch your attention? The Archives receives minutes in all forms. Loose, scribblers, fancy bound books, you name it. I always appreciate the older notebooks with fancy illustrated covers. Take for example, these notebooks, c. 1920s, which...
Mar 25, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Clyde‑Carleton Pastoral Charge of the United Church of Canada is located in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. Clyde-Carleton Pastoral Charge has preaching points in Carleton Village, Clyde River (St. Matthew’s United), and Port Clyde (Port Clyde‑Port...
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