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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...
Summerfield United Church (Summerfield, PEI)
Rev. Hugh Dunbar, a Presbyterian minister who taught school at Norboro, was instrumental in the formation of the Summerfield church in PEI. Construction of a church building was started in 1855 on land donated by Peter Sinclair. This building was moved in 1888 and...
Place: Pine Hill Divinity Hall
The Halifax Free Church College (1848-1878) was established by the Free Church Presbyterians in Halifax in 1848. There were three students enrolled in 1848. By 1860, twenty six had graduated from the school. When the Seccession and Free Church Presbyterians merged in...
Event: First Conference of United Church Men
On the first weekend of August 1953, more than 80 men from all over the Maritimes gathered at Camp Berwick in Nova Scotia for the first conference of Maritime United Church Men. O.R. Crowell served as chair of the conference while J.A. MacGregor, Ralph Herman, and Dan...
Event: The First Maritime Conference, 1925
“By authority of the General Council the first Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada, convened in Fawcett Hall, Sackville, N.B., on Tuesday evening, September 1st, 1925, at 7:45 p.m.” (Minutes of the First Maritime Conference, 1925, p. 1). And so began...