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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

As promised, here is another tidbit from "The Pepper Box," the newspaper put out by the residents of the Pine Hill Divinity Hall residence. Does this bring back memories of your high school or university days?  

Congregationalism was first introduced in Atlantic Canada by New England militiamen who conquered Louisburg, Nova Scotia in 1745. After the return of Louisburg to France, many Congregationalist New England businessmen moved to Halifax and Mather’s Meeting House,...

Sounds like fun, you can't go wrong with many rich pies and things but umm....does anyone out there know what a quilt-shakying is? And I'm sure you've already figured it out but years ago the 's's looked kinda like 'f's