collection Acc3854 - Zion Presbyterian Church fonds : [1862-1987]

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Zion Presbyterian Church fonds : [1862-1987]

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CA PCA Acc3854

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  • Microfilmed 1987 (Production)
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    Zion Presbyterian Church (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)

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14 reels of 35 mm microfilm

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Zion Presbyterian Church (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)

Notice biographique

Zion Presbyterian Church in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, was created in 1870 by the amalgamation of the congregations of the Free Church and the Queen's Square Church.

At the first meeting of the Free Church Presbytery of PEI on 20 July 1854, a preaching station was organized in Charlottetown and was ministered to by various students and ministers. In 1855, West River was disjoined from Strathalbyn and united with Charlottetown to form the Free Church congregation of Charlottetown. Growth was rapid and in 1856 West River was disjoined and the Charlottetown Free Church inducted its first incumbent minister, Rev. George Sutherland and opened its church on the corner of Prince and Euston Streets. Various moves to amalgamate with the Queen's Square congregation or with the congregation of the Kirk of St. James did not prevail until 1870 when the congregation had dimished and was without a pastor.

Although there had been a Presbyterian preaching station in Charlottetown as early as 1849 organized by R.S. Patterson, it was not until 1856 that the Presbytery of Pictou and P.E.I. constituted the Queen's Square congregation. At that time the old Temperance Hall on the north-east corner of Prince and Grafton was rented for services conducted by various Presbyterian ministers. In 1860 a new church opened on Richmond Street and the congregation thenceforth enjoyed a regular supply of preaching. With the departure of Rev. Alexander Falconer in 1869, both this congregation and that of the Free Church were without a minister and the two congregations united to form one congregation to be known as Zion Presbyterian Church. There was also some movement to amalgamate with the congregation of the Church of St. James but this never came to fruition.

Services were held in the Queen's Square Church while the Free Church was rented to the Methodists until their new church was completed. The Free Church would be opened again for services between 1878 and 1882 when the congregation overflowed the Queen's Square Church but it was eventually sold in 1882 along with the manse. The Queen's Square Church was enlarged and remodelled in 1879 and again in 1885 to accommodate 1000 worshippers. In 1913, the congregation relocated to the site of their new brick church on the north-west corner of Prince and Grafton Streets which was dedicated on 13 May of that year. The Richmond Street church was loaned to St. Dunstan's Catholic Church until the Basilica was completed in 1919 at which time the Diocese purchased it and it become the Holy Name Hall. It was eventually torn down to give way to the Basilica Rec Centre.

In 1925, the Zion congregation turned down Union with the Methodists and the Congregationalists by a vote of 300 to 212. Although 17 of the 19 members of Session resigned causing some disarrangement, this was temporary and the Church continues to flourish.

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Présentation du contenu

The fonds consists of membership, baptismal, marriage and burial registers of Zion Presbyterian Church and its predecessors the Free Church and the Queen's Square Church. It includes as well annual reports, financial books and records of the congregation, administrative bodies and special groups of the church. They have been arranged into the following series:

Series 1: Baptisms, marriages, deaths
Series 2: Board of Trustees
Series 3: Session
Series 4: Annual reports
Series 5: Congregational records
Series 6: Registers
Series 7: Financial records
Series 8: Sunday School records
Series 9: Women's Groups
Series 10: Building Committee
Series 11: Records of Rev. David Sutherland
Series 12: Miscellaneous

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The intellectual arrangement of the records is not reflected by the microfilm which was filmed prior to the arrangment process. Consequently portions of series may be found on two or more reels. Also volumes of baptisms, marriages and burials were not filmed in their entirety but rather filmed by type of record, e.g. baptisms, in chronological sequence through several volumes. To locate a particular record of interest, it is necessary to refer to the microfilm contents listing

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  • anglais

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Originals were returned to the church

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ALL RECORDS WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES, AND BURIALS WHICH ARE FOUND ON REELS 11 & 12 ARE RESTRICTED

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PERMISSION FOR USE AND REPRODUCTION IS REQUIRED FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES AND RECORDS OFFICE; QUESTIONS REGARDING COPYRIGHT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USER

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Unrestricted microfilm is located in the microfilm cabinets in the Reading Room

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  • anglais

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