If anyone recognizes this building, please leave a comment on this post or send an email to Sarah at archives@marconf.ca The photographer who took this photograph was based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

The Free Church College in Halifax was started by the Free Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) in Halifax around 1848 to educate young ministers. The College would later become Pine Hill Divinity Hall. The following was taken from the library catalogue prepared in 1856....

Is there any food more polarizing than raisins? It seems to be either love or hate when it comes to those dried grapes. You never hear someone say "I kind of like raisins" or "Raisins are okay." Nope, no middle of the road here. I must admit that I have been on a bit...

Ah, young love. Who doesn't remember the roller coaster of emotions, the shy glances, and the love notes associated with one's first crush? In honor of February 14, here's a poem which was published in the Pepper Box c, 1919, a publication of the Pine Hill Divinity...

Intrigue in the Archives! The other day I was going through some records when I noticed a reference to a sermon book of a Rev. John James Teasdale. We have lots of sermons here at the Archives so that's nothing out of the ordinary but what caught my eye was a note...

Ok, so the title is a bit of a stretch since the date of the following newspaper cover is obviously not New Years 1929 but January 2 is close enough, right?  And in case you're wondering, there's not really any significance attached to 1929. I just happened to have...

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...

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...

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...

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...