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1885-1968, predominant 1904-1925 (Creation)
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- United Church of Canada. Church Union
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14.5 m of textual records
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The Dominion Act uniting the Methodist Church (Canada), the Canadian Congregational Union, and the Presbyterian Church in Canada came into force 1925 June 10, the day the inaugural service of The United Church of Canada was held in Toronto. This event had been preceded by thirty years of proposals and negotiations, under the direction of the Joint Committee on Union after 1904. Within the Presbyterian Church, the years between 1910 and 1925 were particularly marked by controversy over the legitimacy of the union proposals and the efforts of a determined minority to preserve its traditional church structure; and about one-third of the Presbyterians did not join into the union of 1925.
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This material forms part of the General Council program of the United Church of Canada Archive.
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Fonds consists of a collection bringing together records from three uniting denominations, a Joint Committee on Union made up of the three same denominations, as well as records of the newly-created Church, especially its Committee on Law and Legislation. The collection is divided into two series; Series 1, Records of the Union Committees (1889-1927) consists of records relating to the Joint Committee on Church Union, the denominational committees on union, the non-concurring Presbyterians, the local union churches of Northern Ontario and Western Canada, and the Bureau of Literature and Information, and includes minute, reports, literature and newspaper clippings; Series 2 relates primarily to the work of the Committees on Law and Legislation, and contains reports of the parliamentary activity on behalf of the union in the federal and provincial legislatures, and the legal memoranda, correspondence and reports dealing largely with the division of property brought about by the split in the Presbyterian Church.
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Microfilm copy on 59 reels : positive does not correspond to the original material/finding aid in its present state. It has been withdrawn from circulation.
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Revised by Neil Semple, 1985
Updated by Laura Hallman & Elizabeth Mathew, May 2018