One Hundred Years of Erskine Church, Montreal, 1833-1933

The Erskine Presbyterian Church was founded in 1833 and takes its name from Ebenezer and Ralph Erskine, leaders of the Secession Church in Scotland in the 18th century. In 1835 the congregation obtained a site for a church on Lagauchetière St. at Chêneville. They built a small stone church which was known as the Scottish Secession Chapel. In 1866, the Congregation moved to the south-east corner of Peel and Ste. Catherine Streets where they worshipped until 1894. That year, the congregation moved to a new building on the north-east corner of Sherbrooke Street and Ontario Ave. (now Ave. du Musée). For fifty years the Erskine Church was part of the Presbyterian Church in Canada but, in 1925, the members voted to join the United Church of Canada. In 1934, the American Presbyterian Church amalgamated with the Erskine Church to form the Erskine and American United Church. In 2007, the church building was obtained by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and converted into the museum's Canadian art pavilion.

Montreal

United Church of Canada

1934

122p.

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