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Fonds - Church Property Committee fonds
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Church Property Committee fonds
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1859-1956 (Creation)
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- United Church of Canada. British Columbia Conference. Church Property Committee
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60 cm of textual records
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United Church of Canada. British Columbia Conference. Church Property Committee
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The Church Property Committee existed to oversee all purchases and sales of church property within the bounds of the Conference, and to correspond with the presbyteries concerned with such transactions. In 1953 this function was assigned for the Vancouver area to the Vancouver-Westminster Metropolitan Council for Church Extension, and in 1961 the B.C. Conference Council for Church Extension was created to serve this function for the remainder of the Conference.
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Methodist Church of Canada. British Columbia Conference. Church Property Committee
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The fonds consists of deeds and other legal documents, 1861-1937; surveys of and applications to dispose of church properties, 1892-1933; registers of legal documents, descriptions of property and property rents, 1930-1956; correspondence and other files of the Committee chair, 1930-1935; correspondence and cash records of the Committee, 1883-1898; and other correspondence and documents to do with Methodist Church property, 1859-1916. Fonds includes a property records inventory done for administrative purposes in 1932.
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- Alpha-numeric designations: BCAUL control number: UCCBC-80
