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First Congregational Church fonds
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1897-1922 (Creation)
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- First Congregational Church (Kingston, Ont.)
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0.05 m of textual records
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Administrative history
The First Congregational Church of Kingston on Wellington Street at Johnson was built in 1865. Tradition has it that there had been a "Union" meeting place in Kingston since about 1810. Those who attended were not Church of England members, but people holding evangelical or independent views: Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists. The various groups that had made up the "Union" body eventually built churches of their own and the land at the corner of Wellington and Johnson was deeded to the Congregational church trustees in 1850. This occurred during the Pastorate of Reverend Kenneth M. Fenwick. For a variety of reasons, the membership of First Congregational Church declined and the members united with the members of Chalmers Church in 1922. In 1923 the church building was sold to the Masonic Order.
Custodial history
The majority of the records were found in amongst Faculty of Medicine records. The marriage register was donated by David St. Onge in 1999.
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, memos, from 1915 to 1922 of the First Congregational Church, Kingston, prior to the time it was sold by the Congregational Union to the Masonic Order. The church was on Wellington Street at Johnson. Much of the correspondence is to, or from, Mr. John H. Davis of the Kingston Dry Dock (foot of Bay Street) who was secretary for a time. Mr. James Hendry was another secretary. Other names which appear are Reverend William Gunn, general secretary of the Congregational Union of Canada; Dr. A. Neish, chemistry department, Queen's University; Dr. E.C.D. MacCallum, Medical faculty. Queen's University; Reverend T. De Courcy Raynor, sometime minister of First Congregational Church, Kingston. Also includes one 'Marriage Register' for the first Congregational Church, Kingston, Ont.
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Transfered from the Faculty of Medicine, Queen's University, August 1968. Donation from David St. Onge, December 1999.
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- English
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2999 (First Congregational)
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Open
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Public domain
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