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
Polly Ervin: First Laywoman President
Polly Ervin was born in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. She married Rod Ervin in Halifax and they eventually moved to Moncton in 1956. Polly was active in the UCW, serving as UCW president for her local church from 1964-1965 and 1982-1983. She was president of...
Summer Fun: Camp Ta Wa Si, 1949
Patching Up The Old
Herman E. Campbell (1898-1987) was born in Portapique, Nova Scotia on 14 June 1898. He was educated in Colchester County schools; Dalhousie University; and Pine Hall Divinity Hall. On June 8, 1924, he became the last person ordained by the Presbyterian Synod of Nova...
Youth Choir at Port Hawkesbury (Cape Breton), 1945
Bon Appétit!
Different clothes, same great experience: Youth at Conference, 1945
Let's take a trip back in time to 1945 when young people from all over the Maritimes gathered for the Maritime Young People's Conference which took place during the annual Maritime Conference. The assistant secretary of the Young People's Union described the...
Tabusintac Church, 1924
There’s a “fever”…at Berwick Camp
Berwick Welcome Camp 2012 is happening this week! Let's turn to The United Churchman (July 1968 Vol. 53, No. 15) to see what this "fever" is all about: "There's a fever here" remarked a sophomore Berwick camper when asked what he thought of Berwicking. "I came...
Conference Quartette
The Conference Quartet of 1968 consisted of Aubrey Moore, Lewis Murray, Al Reynolds, and George MacLean. They sang at annual meeting and also toured the Maritimes.
The life of a Methodist circuit minister in the 1870s
Early ministers did not have the advantage of staying long in one place. They were required to move on to new pastorates at least every three years. Thomas Allen (1841-1936) was a Methodist minister stationed in Petitcodiac from 1870-1873 with a grand total of 12...