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
Christmas Greetings from the Fireside Club
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 Christmas to...
Archives Recipe of the Month-Christmas Edition
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 and green...
Outside of that I am still alive and thank the good Lord for the same
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...
William Fisher Partridge, editor extraordinaire
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 with...
Archives Recipe of the Month
The Archives just recently received a cookbook from the Covenanter Church in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, and it's got some real gems in it. It's always hard to choose which recipes to post every month but today the theme is rather unusual but super awesome recipes. Buckle...
Roll of Honour
Although the following order of service for a War Memorial Sunday is specifically from Wesley Memorial Church in Moncton, the situation it describes is representative of many churches in Maritime Conference who had/have members who fought in a war and/or were killed...
Games of the hour’s witchery
Halloween-themed records are few and far between here at the Maritime Conference Archives but the Central Methodist Church (later Central United) Epworth League really stepped up to the plate with their nicely-decorated invitation to a Halloween party c. 1916: ...
Happy Thanksgiving from the Archives!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The following photograph is from St. Andrew's United Church in Saint John which would eventually become part of St. Andrew and St. David United Church. Doesn't it make you want to haul out the gourds?
Tales from the Pepper Box: Another Theory Busted
As with any good newspaper, the Pepper Box publication of the Pine Hall Divinity Hall residence had its fair share of cartoons. There is no artist credited to the cartoon so I can't give credit to where credit is due but whoever it was seemed to be quite talented!...
Archives Recipe of the Month
I was all set on posting some more recipes this month but as I was reading through some Young People's Union records for another project I came across a reference to a placemat. Is it bad that my first reaction upon seeing this was "PLACEMAT!!!" Anyway, the placemat,...