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Westbank United Church fonds
Fonds · 1926-2007

Fonds consists of records from Westbank United Church and Peachland-Westbank Pastoral Charge. Records include Membership records (1929-1964); Board and committee records (1935-2001); Women's group records (1926-1999); Men's group records (1934-1935); Youth group records (1992-1995); Annual reports (1978-2007); and "The Uniter" newsletters (1985-2001).

Westbank United Church
Fonds · 1915-2008

Fonds consists of records of West Vancouver United Church and its predecessor, West Vancouver Union Church. Records include Unofficial Session minutes (1969), Board of Managers correspondence and building records (1919-1928), Official Board minutes (1915-1918), Unofficial Board minutes (1971-1972), Ministry and Personnel Committee plan (2000), Music Committee minutes and correspondence (1957-1958), Organ Committee feasability study (1990-1991); Women's Federation minutes (1959-1961), Women's Federation Coordinating Committee minutes and reports (1959), Women's Federation/Woman's Association Financial records (1956-1961), Woman's Association minutes (1940-1959) and financial records (1929-1955), Women's Missionary Society minutes (1948-1959) and membership records (1949-1958), Women's Missionary Society Anne Copithorne Auxiliary minutes (1950-1955) and financial records (1945-1961), United Church Women Annual reports (1981-2008); "The Founding of West Vancouver United Church, 1908-1919" by Maria J. Brown (church history) (1969), "Steps Toward Union: West Vancouver United Church," by Dianne Whidden (church history) (1972), Memorabilia articles by Rupert Harrison (1972), Historical news clippings (1920-1980), Historical notes (1917-1985); Homosexual ordination correspondence and reports (1988), Memorial Gifts lists (1963-1978), Pim Bequest correspondence (1985); Annual reports (1921-2000); Newsletters (1981-2000); Architectural plans (1958, 1963); Favourite recipes (1955), Photo Directories (1981, 1985, 1989).

West Vancouver United Church
Fonds · 1912-2000

Fonds consists of records from West Point Grey United Church, West Point Grey Presbyterian Church, Tolmie Street Methodist Church and Tolmie Street United Church. Records include Baptismal registers (1921-1976), Marriage registers (1919-1983), Burial registers (1921-1976); Circuit register (1918-1927), Membership roll (1926); Session minutes (1912-1971), Session correspondence and reports (1928-1933), Session correspondence (1938-1959), Board of Managers minutes (1912-1927), Stewards minutes (1927-1969), Stewards correspondence and notes (1939-1954) and reports (1959), Official Board minutes (1924-1927), Quarterly Board minutes (1925-1927), Official Board minutes (1927-1984), Quarterly Board Annual report (1927), Official Board correspondence and reports (1921-1959), Official Board correspondence (1933-1944), and reports (1959), Trustees Bond (1941), Trustees Contractor's agreement (1941), Congregational meetings minutes (1950-1973), Building Committee records (1937-1942), Union/Amalgamation Committee minutes (1926-1927); Mortgage (1941), Correspondence re: Green Bequest(1958); Ladies' Aid minutes (1912-1915), Woman's Association records (1915-1963), Woman's Missionary Society records (1915-1960), Women's Federation records (1959-1961), United Church Women records (1954-1984); As One That Serves records (1942-1968); Sunday School minutes and financial records (1924-1965), Sunday School attendance records (1926-1927), Sunday School correspondence (1938-1967) and reports (1938-1942); Young People's Society minutes (1926), Canadian Girls in Training (1956-1957); Church Union Bill, Voting Lists, Ballots (1924), Fiftieth Anniversary records (1960-1961); Financial records (1912-1914), Cash books (1914-1938), Ledgers (1949-1973); Annual Reports (1935-2000); Newsletters (1960-1995); Photographs (unprocessed); Building specifications (1941) and statements of building costs (n.d.)

West Point Grey United Church (Vancouver, B.C.)
Fonds · 1949-1967

Fonds consists of a Baptism register (1949-1965); Communion rolls (1953-1967); Stewards minutes (1949-1966), Official Board minutes (1949-1966) and Congregational Meetings minutes (1949-1966); Woman's Association minutes (1950-1961), Woman's Association/United Church Women minutes (1961-1967), W.A. Walnut Grove Circle minutes (1954-1957) and W.A./U.C.W. cash book (1954-1967); Sunday School cash books (1953-1966); and Congregational cash books (1949-1966), Building Fund cash books (1955-1967) and Memorial Fund cash books (1962-1966).

West Langley Memorial United Church
Fonds · 1914-1998

Fonds consists of records from West Howe Sound Pastoral Charge, West Howe Sound Methodist Circuit, West Howe Sound United Church, Roberts Creek United Church, Gibson United Church, Gibson's Landing Methodist Church, and Granthams Landing United Church. Records include Baptismal registers (1924-1967), Marriage registers (1926-1988), and Burial registers (1949-1998); Membership records (1914-1969); Board and committee records (1913-1998); Women's group records (1935-1994); Sunday school records (1914-[ca. 1985]); Annual reports (1969-1995); Newsletters (1997-1998); Correspondence and subject files (1935-1960); Building and property records (1959-1990); and Congregational directories (1995).

United Church of Canada. West Howe Sound Pastoral Charge (Gibsons B.C.)
West Coast Mission fonds
Fonds · 1962-1977, predominant 1970-1976

The fonds consists of the following series: Minutes and reports, 1962-1977; Finances and accounts, 1970-1976; Organization and staffing, 1970-1976; Property management, 1970-1976; Correspondence, 1970-1972; Projects and strategic planning, 1971-1977; Resident students' and band members' lists, 1962-1974; and Tseshaht United Church, 1971-1975. Minutes from 1962-1969, and possibly other records of the Advisory Committee to Indian Work in the Alberni Valley, were inherited by the Mission and are with the records.

West Coast Mission
Fonds · 1948-1996

Fonds consists of Baptismal registers (1912-1988), Marriage registers (1912-1987) and Burial registers (1912-1973); Circuit register (1910-1932), Communion rolls (1914-1951) and Membership list (1936); Session records (1911-1988), Board of Managers/Stewards minutes (1912-1988), Official Board records (1908-1988), Council minutes (1988-1990), Trustees minutes (1944-1955), Congregational Meetings records (1912-1991), Christian Education Committee records (1958-1969), Library Committee minutes (1966-1968) and Hall Committee minutes (1956-1961); Legal/property records (1935-1948); Ladies Aid cash book (1918-1926), Woman's Association minutes (1932-1946), Woman's Federation records (1946-1962), Woman's Association Central Circle minutes (1942-1961), W.A. Eastern Circle minutes (1958-1961), W.A. Fidelia Circle minutes (1947-1961), W.A. Garden Circle minutes (1955-1962), W.A. Northern Circle records (1948-1961), W.A. Western Circle minutes (1946-1961), Woman's Missionary Society records (1919-1951), W.M.S. Wohelo (Young Women's) Auxiliary records (1928-1934), W.M.S. Wohelo (Evening) Auxiliary records (1934-1961), United Church Women records (1961-1988), U.C.W. Fidelia Unit minutes (1962-1986), U.C.W. Garden Unit records (1962-1980), U.C.W. Harmony Unit records (1970-1983), U.C.W. Western Unit minutes (1962-1970) and U.C.W. Wohelo Unit records (1962-1975); A.O.T.S. (As One That Serves) minutes (1933-1974); Sunday School records (1907-1966); Excelsior (Musical and Literary) Club minutes (1915), Christian Endeavour register (1913-1914) and Hi-C Group minutes (1961-1966); Cradle roll (1965-1980), Cooperative Kindergarten records (1958-1960) and Old Age Pensioners Association records 1974-1983); Worship service bulletins (1936-1990); Treasurer's record books (1907-1936); Annual reports (1951-1996); Newsletters (1979-1990); and Architectural records for West Burnaby United Church's Hall (1956).

West Burnaby United Church
Fonds · 1886-1933

Fonds consists of Baptismal register (1911-1932), Marriage registers (1903-1933), Burial register (1911-1932); Circuit register (1886-1901), Membership certificates (1909-1912); Official Board minutes (1875-1930), Trustee minutes (1888-1930); Ladies Aid minutes (1916-1923), Woman's Association records (1917-1927), Women's Missionary Society minutes (1890-1899, 1911-1921); Sunday School records (1886-1894, 1899-1924); Young Peoples Fellowship (1926-1932).

Wesley United Church (Vancouver, BC)
Wells United Church fonds
Fonds · 1933-1985

Fonds consists of records from Wells United Church, Barkerville-Wells Pastoral Charge and Wells Community Church. Records include a Baptism register (1936-1948) and certificate stubs (1961-1964), Marriage registers (includes civil) (1936-1957) and a Burial register (1936-1956); Communion roll (1936-1944); Session minutes (1937-1949) and Official Board and Session correspondence (1938-1961); Woman's Association minutes (1950-1951); Insurance questionnaires (Cariboo Presbytery) (1952), Evangelism and Social Service Correspondence, reports and booklets of R.W. Henderson (1946) and Home Missions correspondence (1933-1935); and Annual reports (1985).

Wells United Church
Fonds · 1926-1968

Fonds consists of records from Lantzville United Church, Lantzville-Wellington Pastoral Charge and Wellington United Church (Nanaimo, B.C.). Records include Marriage registers (1926-1962); Stewards minutes (1951-1967), Unified Board minutes (1967-1968), Building Committee correspondence (1960-1962).

Wellington United Church (Nanaimo, B.C.)
Fonds · 1928-1948

The fonds consists of minutes of the Church Board 1928-1931, 1937) and congregational meetings (1930-1937, 1940); and also includes financial statements (1939-1948) and correspondence and reports (1936-1945).

Webster's Corners United Church (Maple Ridge, B.C.)
Fonds · 1859-1925

Fonds consists of records from Wallace Street United Church Wallace Street Methodist Church and Nanaimo Wesleyan Methodist Church. Records include Baptismal records (1903-1928), Marriage records (1900-1928), Burial records (1903-1928); Official Board minutes (1912-1925); and Sunday School records (1859-1933).

Wallace Street Methodist Church (Nanaimo. B.C.)
Fonds · 1882-1884

The fonds consists of minutes of the Financial District, 1882-1884.

Methodist Church of Canada. Victoria-New Westminster District
Fonds · 1897-1966

Fonds consists of records of Victoria West United Church, Victoria West-James Bay Pastoral Charge (1948-1957), and predecessor records of Wesley Methodist Church (Victoria, B.C.). Fonds is arranged with no separation between Victoria West United Church and the predecessor records, as the records are primarily continuous within the volumes. Records include a Baptism register (1903-1965), Marriage registers (includes civil) (1903-1962) and a Burial register (1906-1965); Circuit register (1897-1945) and Historic roll (1945-1965); Joint Official Board minutes (1948-1957), Session minutes (1926-1964), Stewards minutes (1950-1965), Official Board minutes (1911-1966); Trustees minutes (1915-1922), Congregational Meetings minutes (1931-1965), Memorial Organ Committee minutes (1955-1958) and Memorial Organ Book (1957); Property/legal records (1966); Ladies Aid minutes (1901-1936), Woman's Association minutes (1936-1954), W.A. Friendship Circle minutes (1954-1963), Monteith Club minutes (1928-1965), Woman's Missionary Society minutes (1944-1961), W.M.S. Jara Smith Auxiliary minutes (1948-1966) and United Church Women minutes (1962-1965); Men's Club minutes (1954-1958); Sunday School minutes (1913-1932) and record book (1961-1962); Mission Band minutes (1907-1913) and Epworth League minutes (1913-1918); Couples Club minutes (1961-1964); and Congregational financial records (1915-1958).

Victoria West United Church
Fonds · 1925-2011

Fonds consists of the following record series: Victoria Presbytery and Executive meeting minutes (1925-2011); Subject files of the Presbytery Secretary (1955-1986); Correspondence of the Presbytery Secretary (1957-1972); Presbytery committees (1931-1936; 1964-1994); and Financial records (1938-1959).

United Church of Canada. Victoria Presbytery
Victoria District fonds
Fonds · 1886-1925

The fonds consists of minutes of the Annual District and the Ministerial Session, 1910-1918, 1922-1925; minutes of the Financial District, 1886-1925; and incoming correspondence of the District chair, 1905-1906.

Methodist Church of Canada. Victoria District
Vi Keenleyside fonds
Fonds · [192-?]-1987

Fonds consists of four record series relating to Keenleyside’s research for They Also Came: Subject files ([1970?]-1984); Biographical files ([192-?]-1987); Photographs (1946-[1986?]); and Audio recordings ([197-?]).

Keenleyside, Vi
Vera Bell (née Lyon) fonds
Fonds · 1957-2021

Fonds consists of records relating primarily to Vera Bell's work as a nurse and matron at United Church mission hospitals, including Wrinch Memorial Hospital in Hazelton, B.C. and Queen Charlotte Islands Hospital in Haida Gwaii.

Bell, Vera
Fonds · 1957-2006

Fonds consists of the following record series: Vancouver-South Presbytery and Executive meeting minutes (1959-2006); Subject files of the Presbytery Secretray (1959-1973); Presbytery Secretary liaison with specific congregations (1957-1973); Correspondence of the Presbytery Secretary (1958-1975); Survey of nine churches in Vancouver-South Presbytery (1969-1973); and Presbytery Committee records.

United Church of Canada. Vancouver-South Presbytery
Fonds · 1959-2012

Fonds consists of the following record series: Vancouver-Burrard Presbytery and Executive meeting minutes (1959-2012); Subject files of the Presbytery Secretary (1959-1983); Pastoral Charge files of the Presbytery Secretary (1959-1983); Correspondence of the Presbytery;Secretary (1984-1989); and Presbytery committee records (1970-1983).

United Church of Canada. Vancouver-Burrard Presbytery
Fonds · 1925-1926

Fonds consists of official minutes of Vancouver West Presbytery (1925-1926).

United Church of Canada. Vancouver West Presbytery
Vancouver Presbytery fonds
Fonds · 1925-1959

Fonds consists of the following record series: Vancouver Presbytery and Executive meeting minutes (1925-1959); Presbytery committee minutes (1925-1956); Church property records (1932); and Subject files of the Presbytery Secretary (1926-1959).

United Church of Canada. Vancouver Presbytery
Fonds · 1925-2017

Fonds consist of records from the Powell Street Methodist/United Church, and postwar Vancouver Japanese United Church; as well as the English-Speaking Congregation sous-fonds. Records include: Baptism, marriage and burial records (1896-1942); Membership records (1896-1942); Board and Committee records (1918-1942); Sunday School records (1932-1941); Youth Group records ([before 1942]-1942); Special Program records (1922-1942); Correspondence/Subject files ([before 1942]-1968); Annual reports (1929-1941); Newsletters (1928-1941); and Photographs ([1897?]-2004).

The English-Speaking Congregation sous-fonds includes: Baptism, marriage, and burial records (1970-2008); Membership records (1959-2016); Board and Committee records (1955-2017); Congregational correspondence (1969-1976); Annual reports (1971-2016); Bulletins and newsletters (1954-2009); Church history (1936-2013); Women's group records (1989-1999); Records of other groups (1952-1970); and Photographs (1905-2006).

Vancouver Japanese United Church