Archives – About Us
The Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council and Fundy St. Lawrence Dawning Waters Regional Council Archives is mandated to collect, preserve, and provide access to the records of the Maritime, Gaspé, and Bermuda regions of the The United Church of Canada. We also have pre-1925 records of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational congregations in the Maritimes and Gaspé which joined The United Church of Canada in 1925.
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Contact Us
The Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council and Fundy St. Lawrence Dawning Waters Regional Council Archives
Archivist: Sarah Wallace
21 Wright Street Sackville, NB E4L 4P8
Email: swallace@united-church.ca
Telephone: 506-306-0383
Fax: 506-536-2900
Hours: Tuesdays to Thursdays, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
In-person research visits are by appointment only.
Resources
Browse Our Holdings
Our holdings include records from:
- The congregations of Bermuda-Nova Scotia Regional Council and Fundy St. Lawrence Dawning Waters Regional Council
- The Regional Councils Office and the former Maritime Conference
- Pine Hall Divinity Hall (now part of Atlantic School of Theology)
- Church camps
- Individuals who have ministered within the churches or held leadership positions within the two regions.
Check out the links below to see listings of our records. New records listings are periodically added to the website so stay tuned!
Congregational Union of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia records
News & Updates
Dashing Through the Snow
When life gives you snow...go sleighing? On Friday, February 8, 1907, some members of Young Men’s Bible Class of Grace Methodist Church in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (now Grace United Church) went on a sleigh ride to Fall River. The secretary, C.P. Chittick, took great...
Musquodoboit Harbour Joins The United Church of Canada (Part 2)
If you didn’t have a chance to read the first post about Musquodoboit Harbour joining The United Church of Canada, you can click here. Now that the vote to join The United Church of Canada was finalized, the Methodist and Presbyterian congregations in Musquodoboit...
Musquodoboit Harbour Joins The United Church of Canada (Part 1)
You may be surprised to learn that most former Methodist or Presbyterian churches recorded very little in their minutes about joining with The United Church of Canada in 1925. Sometimes, if you are lucky, you can see a brief note about the results of the church union...
Happy Valentine’s Day from the Archives
Happy Valentines Day! The following photograph is from St. Paul's United Church in Fredericton and was probably taken in the 1910s or 1920s. It looks like the group was putting on a play or fashion show. If you look closely you can see paper hearts and cupids hanging...
A Presbyterian Book Club
Has anyone decided to start off 2024 by joining a book club? In December 1908, the Presbyterian ministers of Lunenburg and Yarmouth Presbytery formed a Theological and Literary Club. The club seemed rather formal with a secretary appointed and a minister tasked with...
Merry Christmas from the Archives
This 1901 Christmas greeting was from Rev. Lachlan A. MacLean and his wife. At this time, Rev. MacLean would have been minister at Lorneville Presbyterian Church in New Brunswick which would become Lorneville United Church in 1925 .
Send Us a Post Card to Long Reach
The Archives holds a lot of newsletters from various churches but it is very rare to find a newsletter from before 1925. That's why I wanted to post this "Circuit Messenger" newsletter from December 1899. It was printed for the Kingston Methodist Circuit which was...
When a kid is named after their minister
I am not a minister but I can imagine baptizing a child named after you must feel rather nice. Rev. A.M. DesBrisay must have thought so as he actually wrote "DesBrisay" in larger letters and then underlined it in the register when he recorded the baptism of James...
Picnic Season
It's at this time of year where people begin brave the bugs and unpredictable weather to dine in the fresh air. This was very much the case 100 years ago too. Here are highlights of some of the picnic related records we hold here at the Archives: This photograph was...
June 26, 1887
I usually schedule posts to appear on the website on Tuesdays but I came across a letter from a Rev. John Cameron dated Monday, June 26, 1887 so obviously I had to post it today instead. Rev. John Cameron was born in East River, Nova Scotia on September 21, 1817. He...