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Men's groups records
CA NL0064 12.0 · Series · [191-]-2002
Part of Cochrane Street United Church (St. John's, Newfoundland) fonds

Series consists of constitutions [198-], 1995; member lists, officers and members of Committees 1961, [198-]-1998; minutes 1956-1966, 1985 (summary), 1986 (2 mtgs.), 1987 (1 mtg.), 1986 (1 mtg.), 1988 (1 mtg.), 1989-2000; activities lists and reports [195-], 1990-1998 and records relating to Usher Committee Cambridge Choir Concert 1995.

Also a part of the series are financial records which include reports (primarily annual) 1943, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1961, 1963, 1987-1998; miscellaneous financial records 1950-1951, 1999-2001; publications comprising monthly newsletters 1958-1966 describing the work and activities of the club and the 1st edition of the St. John's Young Chinese Christian Association Journal February 1958; correspondence 1985-2002; and annual reports 1963, 1989, [1990], 1995.

A number of graphic images are included. They are described as follows: dinner with the attendees identified (date unknown), two photographs of identified attendees at a partridge supper 1944, men serving flipper dinner 1985 and five photographs of men in the club serving Jiggs Dinner.

Miscellaneous records include dinner meeting invitation to the 10th annual meeting 1950; newspaper clipping [194-?]; invitations to men's meeting [191-]; Men's Club locker inventory 1995; information file about the club 1990; Memorial hymn sing pledge sheets; correspondence and order of service 2001; hymn sheets [19-] and a Song book [19-]. Also included is a copy of "Minutes of preliminary meeting held at manse Oct 16, 1939 for the purpose of forming a men's association" (2 meetings 16 Oct. 1939 and 13 Nov. 1939) - original held at the Newfoundland and Labrador Conference Archives, Mr. Harold Luscombe private papers).

Cochrane Street United Church Men's Group
Sunday School records
CA NL0064 9.0 · Series · [1886-198-]
Part of Cochrane Street United Church (St. John's, Newfoundland) fonds

Series consists of minutes of the administration of the Sunday School for [1886]-1922 including financial statements; Board of Directors minutes 1962-1963, and Bible Class (teenage children) minutes 1964-1965 including annual reports and correspondence. Also a part of this series are attendance and membership records including students and teachers for 1914-1921, Beginner's Department 1924-1930, 1961-1962, Junior Church 1954-1933, Attendance roll [196-?] and a list of students and teachers [196-].

Other records comprising this series are financial records: account book 1961-1967; donation envelopes 1961-1963; and a single invoice for 1960; reports 1963-1964; a significant piece of correspondence dated 1924 which is a letter from missionary in China with translation and supporting documentation, as well as several pieces of correspondence dated 1962-1963. A miscellaneous group of records consists of service bulletins [191-]-[192-], cradle roll certificates [195-]-[196-], collection envelopes [191-]-[192-?], Sunday School Library Book Catalogue [19-], Sunday School curriculum material 1933-1934, 1938, [195-?], [198-], invitation to attend Sunday School [19-], invitation and program for nursery party 1965, and the Sunday School Institute round table discussion program [19-].

Legal records
CA NL0064 3.0 · Series · 1876-1981
Part of Cochrane Street United Church (St. John's, Newfoundland) fonds

Series consists of legal records that are primarily copies and include deeds 1876, 1883, 1899, 1924, 1955; minute of meeting re: transfer of lease of land to Board of Trustees 1879; statement of costs re: refinanced mortgage of manse 1981; and a summary of descriptions of church property [189-].

Fonds · 1882-2006

The fonds consists of records which document the work and activities of Cochrane Street United Church congregation, its boards and committees and its organizations, with the records starting in 1882.

The records consist of the administrative records of the congregation which include the Quarterly Official Board, the Boards of Session and Stewards, their committees, both standing and ad hoc, and the Board of Management starting in 1987, and its committees. The fonds also includes financial records, comprising of financial statements and reports as well as some audited reports. Also included are vital statistic records dating from the independence of the congregation in 1890 and membership records dating from 1916. Annual reports, many of which were published, are included. Women's and men's groups, youth groups, and Sunday School records are also a part of this fonds.

The records are arranged in the following series: board and committee records (1882-2005); financial records (1935-2004); legal records (1876-1981); baptism, marriage and burial records (1890-2006); membership records (1891-2005); congregational meetings (1930-2003); annual reports (1916-2005, predominant 1948-2005); general correspondence (1979-2003); Sunday School records [1886-198-]; youth groups records [196-]-[199-]; women's groups records (1931-2005); men's groups records [191-]-2001; related records ([19-]-2004).

Cochrane Street United Church (St. John's, N.L.)

Sub-series consists of Quarterly Official Board records consist of minutes 1907-1987 including some financial statements and some annual meetings; lists of members of the Quarterly Official Board 1958-1966; Pastoral Relations Committee minutes and correspondence 1965-1973 and Ministry and Personnel Committee minutes 1965, [197-]-1986. Also included is a correspondence file 1942-1944, 1958-1966, 1980-1986 which includes miscellaneous financial statements and members of committees. The New Church Building Committee 1914-1918 is a major file in this sub-series and contains correspondence and financial records, architects' specifications, and blueprints and drawings, for the construction of the present church building as well as material related to the stained glass windows in the church. Documents relating to the Harrison and Harrison organ 1914-1916 are included.

The Board of Trustee records consist of minutes 1891-1944 and a Trustee account book 1885-1891 which contains some correspondence.

Board of Stewards records consist of lists of members 1958-1986, terms of reference for the sub-committees 1979, and minutes 1929-1940, 1954-1960, 1964-1987. Board of Stewards Committee records consist of Finance Committee minutes 1973 and reports [195-]-1960, 1970, 1977-1979, Organ Committee minutes and correspondence 1956, Membership Committee minutes 1956, Debt Retirement Committee minutes 1977, Projects Committee terms of reference, notes and correspondence 1978, Congregational Contributions Committee minutes 1981, New Members Committee minutes 1957-1958, Memorial Gift Committee minutes 1982, and Ushering Committee lists of members 1959-1967, 1985. Some lists of duties of ushers are part of the Usher Committee records.

The Property Committee records consist of minutes 1958, 1959, 1984; reports 1956-1968, 1980, 1981; wiring plans 1957 by Fred. W. Bishop, Heating and Piping Consultant; blueprints of electrical and other renovations 1982 by Bill MacCallum, Architect; artist's rendition of memorial plaque [196-]; drawings, specifications and correspondence 1955-1958 (includes transfer letter) for a new organ; and miscellaneous records 1958-1986.

Financial records of the Board of Stewards consist of pew rents, general and other accounts, loans and bequests, and ledgers. Pew rent books cover the years 1882-1916, 1940-1954, 1916-1929. The latter book contains general accounts 1919-1929 and parsonage accounts 1919-1929. Account books 1907-1935 also contains congregational loans, 1907-1916, 1918-1926, and 1937-1944, with the latter also containing pew rents. Additionally there is a list of pew holders which is undated. Loans and bequests records 1936-1945 and ledgers 1933-1977, 1983-1984 are part of this file.

The Board of Session records consist of minutes 1933-1966 which is a very small file and includes some special Committees of Session, minutes 1929-1987; pastoral acts, primarily membership transfers, and some requests for baptismal and marriage certificates, 1922, 1933-1942, 1946-1948, 1950, 1955, 1958-1960, 1968-1979, 1981-1988; preaching mission correspondence and miscellaneous records 1968; reports [19-]-1958, 1968, 1972; lists of members of Session 1945-1969; and a correspondence file [193-], 1932-1987.

Membership records
CA NL0064 5.0 · Series · 1891-2006
Part of Cochrane Street United Church (St. John's, Newfoundland) fonds

Series consists of a membership list of the congregation who have been admitted as members through affirmation of faith, re-affirmation of faith, confirmation, or transfer of membership from another congregation. The records are arranged as follows: membership lists 1891-1916, circuit register 1917-1967, historic rolls 1966-2006.

Service Bulletins

Sub-series consists of orders of service for regular and special services 1900-1966, 1968, 1975-1976, 1980-1988, 1990-1992, 1994-2004. There are also some undated and miscellaneous service bulletins. Since 1975 it appears that the service bulletins were more consistently retained.