St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in Hampden was organized in 1876, as a result of the expansion of the Scottish settlements to Springhill and Milan by the 1870s. Prior to that, people from Hampden belonged to St. John's Presbyterian Church in Winslow (Hampden and Winslow congregation). In 1917, a split in St. Luke's Presbyterian Church resulted in the formation of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Milan. The two churches then formed one congregation, but each had their own Board of Managers. When the union of Methodists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians took place in 1925, St. Luke's Presbyterian Church remained Presbyterian. In 1944, the Church was closed and the building was sold to the Archidiocèse de Sherbrooke de l'Église catholique, which moved it to Island Brook. St. Luke's Presbyterian Church was under the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Quebec of the Synod of Quebec and Eastern Ontario of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. The Church is governed by the congregation and the church's courts (board of managers and session) in co-operation with committees, societies, and organizations within the Church, such as the Sunday School and the Women's Missionary Society.
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Title based on contents of fonds.
The fonds contains source material on Church management and the congregation's affairs from 1870 to the 1960s. It consists mainly of registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials; minute books; accounting books; and reports. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Vital Statistics (1877-1936), Congregation ([196-?]), Board of Managers (1898-1943), Photographs (188-?]), and Miscellaneous Documents (1870-[194-?]).
The classification of the fonds is based on the file classification plan established by Sylvie Côté, ETRC Archivist, for local Presbyterian Church records. Individual churches do not all have records falling in each of the system's prearranged series, subseries, and files. This fonds is an example, as it comprises only five series out of a possible nine.
Some items exhibit mould damage. Dry Methods for Surface Cleaning of Paper was done on those items which required cleaning in December 2001 by Francine Godbout.
Some documents exhibit mould damage.
The fonds was loaned in 1996 for 50 years by the Presbytery of Quebec of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
No more accruals are expected.
Researchers may also consult the St. John's Presbyterian Church (Winslow) fonds (file PC004/001/001) and the Bethany Presbyterian Church (Milan) fonds (files PC006/001/001, PC006/002/001 PC006/002/002).
The register of baptisms, marriages, and burials may be restricted at the discretion of the Archivist.
The following finding aid is available: Catalogue to the St. Luke's Presbyterian Church (Hampden) fonds (PC005), compiled by Sylvie Côté, 1998.
Series title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC archivist.
The document is in English.
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The series contains source material on civil status from 1877 to 1898. It comprises only one file: Registers of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials (1877-1936).
File title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
Dry Methods for Surface Cleaning of Paper was done in December 2001 by Francine Godbout.
The document is in English.
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The file consists of one register for the baptisms, marriages, and burials performed at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church in Hampden from 1877 to 1898. Some entries have been registered after the fact, from 1926 to 1936, by the minister in office at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Milan.
Also available on microfilm, reel 8.
Series title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
The document is in English.
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The series contains source material on the history of the congregation. It comprises only one file: History ([196-?]).
As stated in the 1993 edition of the Book of Forms of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, a congregation is a company of persons, together with their children, associated in a particular locality for Christian worship, instruction, fellowship and work, with the sanction of a presbytery (art. 139). Members of the congregation are under the care and subject to the authority of the session (art. 142). They have access to the session in reference to any matter affecting themselves, their fellow members, the congregation, or the church (art. 143). The property of the congregation is held by trustees, who should be professing members, appointed by the congregation, in the manner provided for in the trust deed (art. 149). To erect a place of worship, a congregation must obtain the presbytery's approval of the site (art. 150). Meetings of the congregation are called by the authority of the session on its own motion or on requisition in writing of the deacon's court or the board of managers, or of a number of professing members, or by mandate of a superior court (art. 152). Every congregation should hold an annual meeting for receiving the report of the board of managers or the deacon's court and transacting any other business regularly brought before it. It is recommended that the annual report be printed and circulated among the members of the congregation (art. 153). At congregational meetings the minister of the congregation presides (art. 154).
File title transcribed from file classification system established by the ETRC Archivist.
The document is in English.
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The file consists of a list of all the ministers appointed to the church.
Series title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
The documents are in English.
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The series contains source material on the management, the finances and the accounting of the Church from 1898 to 1943. It comprises the following files: Minutes (1898-1919), Account Books (1909-1934), Buildings and Property (1934), and Financial Statements (1914-1943).
As stated in the 1993 edition of the Book of Forms of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, in congregations where there is not a deacon's court, the management of the financial affairs of the church is entrusted to a board of managers (art. 158). The managers are chosen by the congregation at the annual meeting of the congregation or a meeting called for the purpose (art. 159). The duties of the board relate specially to the temporal and financial affairs of the congregation. It is their duty to co-operate closely with the session in encouraging support of the congregation's total ministry and to disburse all moneys received for this purpose, subject to the approval of the congregation; to provide for the payment of the minister's stipend and other salaries; and generally to administer all matters committed to their charge as the congregation may direct (art. 162). The board of managers is responsible for caring for the place of worship and other ecclesiastical buildings and seeing that they are kept in good condition and repair (art. 163); paying the expenses in connection with the service of praise as determined by the congregation (art. 164); and appointing and dismissing the church officer (art. 165). At its annual meeting, the congregation appoints among the members of the board a convener, a secretary, and a treasurer (art. 167). It is the duty of the secretary to keep a faithful record of the proceedings of the board in a book provided for the purpose; and to record there any congregational meetings held for temporal purposes (art. 169). Meetings of the board are held at stated times, at least once in three months for the transaction of business (art. 171).
File title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
The documents are in English.
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The file consists of two books containing minutes of meetings of the board of managers and the congregation. The first book covers the years 1898 to 1908, and the second book, 1912-1919.
Also available on microfilm, reel 8.
File title transcibed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
Dry Method for Surface Cleaning of Paper was done in December 2001 by Francine Godbout.
The documents are in English.
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The file includes three accounting books providing information on contributions made by the members of the congregation to the ministers' salary, revenues, expenditures, arrears, schemes, and annual statements for the Church, the Women's Missionary Society and the Ladies' Aid Society from 1909 to 1934.
File title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
The document is in English.
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The file consists of a 3-year insurance policy for the church of the Milan and Hampden congregation dated 2 April 1934.
File title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
Dry Method for Surface Cleaning of Paper was done in December 2001 by Francine Godbout.
The documents are in English.
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The file consists of 16 financial reports from 1914 to 1943. They provide the names of the minister, the elders, and the members of the board of managers, of the session, and of the board of trustees; a list of the Church's members and their contributions to the Church; the receipts and expenditures of the Church and its different organizations and societies; reports on different funds; pastoral letters by the minister; and reports of the session.
Series title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
Caption on verso in English.
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The series consists of one photograph showing Rev. John MacKenzie, minister in Hampden from 1877 to 1884, in an exterior background.
Series title transcribed from file classification plan established by the ETRC Archivist.
The documents are in English, except for one in Gaelic.
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The series consists of seven documents: two communion tokens; a Scots Gaelic hymn book “Laoidhean Shioin” by Archibald Farquharson, published 1870, gifted to pastor Hugh Lamont by Mrs. A. Murray in 1892; an 1888 booklet entitled The Highland Settlements, County of Compton, Que, by Rev. Hugh Lamont, minister at St. Luke's Presbyterian Church from 1885 to 1893; a song in Gaelic, a poem on Whitton, and a press clipping on the induction of Rev. Duncan Fraser in 1910.