Fonds UC019 - Sisco Memorial United Church (Coaticook) fonds

Sisco Memorial United Church, initially of Methodist denomination, was organized between 1853 and 1855 in Coaticook. The first religious services were held in the schoolhouse, until a wooden church was erected and dedicated in 1855. Because the community was growing, a second church of brick was built five years later. In 1925, when the United Church of Canada was founded, amalgamating Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, the Coaticook Methodist Church decided to join the Union and was renamed the Coaticook United Church. Since 1956, the church has been called Sisco Memorial United Church in memory of Gordon Sisco, a prominent member of the congregation. The church building was sold to the Town of Coaticook in 1993. The congregation continued to worship in the building, which is now called the Pavillion des arts et de la culture de Coaticook, for a time and then later worshipped with the St. Stephen Anglican Church in Coaticook. On 12 July 2012, the congregation of Sisco Memorial officially disbanded due to declining membership.

Sisco Memorial United Church in Coaticook was under the jurisdiction of the Quebec and Sherbrooke Presbytery of the Montreal and Ottawa Conference of the United Church of Canada. The Church was governed by the Board of Trustees, the Official Board, the Session, and the Congregation in co-operation with organizations within the Church, such as the Young Ladies' Circle, the Women's Association, and the Women's Missionary Society.