Jan 6, 2015 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Intrigue in the Archives! The other day I was going through some records when I noticed a reference to a sermon book of a Rev. John James Teasdale. We have lots of sermons here at the Archives so that’s nothing out of the ordinary but what caught my eye was a...
Dec 30, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Ok, so the title is a bit of a stretch since the date of the following newspaper cover is obviously not New Years 1929 but January 2 is close enough, right? And in case you’re wondering, there’s not really any significance attached to 1929. I just...
Dec 23, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
The Fireside Club was based out of St. David’s Presbyterian/United Church in Saint John and was a men’s club which held Bible studies as well as debates. This card is actually a mash-up of two different cards; one from 1913 and one from 1915. Merry...
Dec 16, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
This month’s post was compiled and written by Katie Ferguson, a regular volunteer at the Archives: The first recipe is for a very nice festive loaf (The Art of Cooking in Beaverbank, St. John’s United Church Women): Wonderfully Christmas-coloured with red...
Dec 9, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
As I often like to tell people when I get on my archives spiel, church records are important not only for the stories they tell about specific churches but also for the stories they tell about our broader community and society. According to the minutes of the January...
Dec 3, 2014 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
I’ve lost track of the number of times I wished I could go back in time to meet someone whose records we have in the Archives. William Fisher Partridge is one of those people. Just from the little I read about him, it seems like he was a wonderful man and one...
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