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
Tales from the Pepper Box: Your Daily Reminders
The benefits of an apple-based diet, lost articles and events that are not to be missed. The Pepper Box Classifieds has it all.
A Golden Treasury for the Children of God
This is from a daily devotional book entitled "A Golden Treasury for the Children of God, Whose Treasure is in Heaven." It was published by R. Spence in 1783 (i.e. a really long time ago!). Here's the devotion for January 6. In case you are wondering what "poffible"...
Happy New Years from the Archives!
To kick off 2014, here's a page from a 1915 calendar which was produced by the Hampton (NB) Methodist Church. As you can see, the calendar has lots of inspirational quotes to get you through the first two weeks of the year:
Merry Christmas from the Archives!
A cookie update…
Last week, I was very excited to receive an email from Brenda at St. Paul's United Church in Sussex, NB. She sent me pictures of two delicious looking batches of cookies that she had made using the recipes from last month's Archives Recipes of the Month. These recipes...
Does anyone recognize these church buildings?
The Archives receives a good number of photographs in the course of a year. Fortunately, many of these photographs are labelled. However, there are some photographs that have no identifying information on them and as you can imagine, it's not exactly helpful for a...
Gospel Wagon Mission
The Gospel Wagon Mission was organized on May 29, 1896 with the purpose of "sending the Gospel to the more isolated and neglected sections of Nova Scotia." David Herd, Hanisworth, and Thomas Turnbull operated the wagon. The Wagon team visited communities all over Nova...
Archives Recipe of the Month
I'm not trying to be controversial here and don't get me wrong, I love chocolate chip cookies just as much as anyone else, but don't you sometimes wish cookie recipes would be a little more varied or interesting? Like "Scratch Me Back" or "Wonders" or "Jubilee...
17 pillows, 10 cheese plates, and 1 looking glass
The archivist in me was super excited when I stumbled across the following document. And yes, the words archivist and excitement can occur in the same sentence... This is an inventory of the furniture of the Methodist manse in Liverpool in 1842 and was found in the...
Baby Boom in Amherst
Looks like the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s was alive and well in Amherst, Nova Scotia! This is a photograph from Trinity-St. Stephen's United Church. Although there was no label on the back, perhaps these babies were being baptized on that particular day.