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...
Mar 26, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
“By authority of the General Council the first Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada, convened in Fawcett Hall, Sackville, N.B., on Tuesday evening, September 1st, 1925, at 7:45 p.m.” (Minutes of the First Maritime Conference, 1925, p. 1). And so began...
Mar 15, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Clarence MacKinnon was born in Hopewell, Pictou County, Nova Scotia on March 11, 1868. His parents were Rev. John and Margaret (Tait) MacKinnon. MacKinnon attended public schools in both Prince Edward Island and Scotland and went on to earn a divinity degree from the...
Feb 22, 2012 | Archives Committee, Featured Congregations
Methodists in Wolfville first worshipped in private residences until a chapel was erected in 1859-1860. The Methodist Congregation joined the Presbyterian Congregation of Wolfville in 1923 and the Methodist Chapel was sold and dismantled that same year. A...
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