About Us

Our Holdings:

The Maritime Conference Archives is mandated to collect, preserve, and provide access to the records of the Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada. We also have pre-1925 records of the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational congregations in the Maritimes which joined The United Church of Canada in 1925.

Our holdings include records from:

  • The congregations of the Maritime Conference
  • The Maritime Conference office
  • The Presbyteries within the Maritime Conference
  • Pine Hall Divinity Hall (now part of the Atlantic School of Theology)
  • Church camps
  • Individuals who have ministered within the churches or held leadership positions in the Conference

Our History:

The development of the collections in the Maritime Conference Archives began as early as 1866 when the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces of British North America agreed that the clerks of the presbyteries form a committee to collect documents of interest detailing the history of the Presbyterian Church in the Maritimes. These documents were placed in the keeping of the Presbyterian College in Halifax, which would become Pine Hall Divinity Hall after 1925.  The Pine Hill Library then became a repository for Presbyterian and United Church records.

In 1903 an informal meeting of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island Methodists organized a society to promote the study of Church history. A curator was appointed to collect and preserve documents for research and publication, which were to be held at Mount Allison University. The Methodist Records were moved from Mount Allison University to Pine Hill Divinity College in 1968.

In 1998 the entire collection at Pine Hill was moved to the current location at Sackville, New Brunswick.

 

Contact Us

Maritime Conference Archives

21 Wright Street Sackville, NB E4L 4P8

Email: archives@marconf.ca

Telephone: 506-536-1334 ext. 208

Fax: 506-536-2900

Hours: Tuesdays-Thursdays, 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.  Appointments are recommended.

Archivist: Sarah Wallace

 

For Pastoral Charges and Presbyteries

What to Send to the Conference Archives

Filling in Church Registers

Guidelines and Checklist for Presbytery Minute Books

 

For Genealogists and Other Researchers

Fee Schedule