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Montreal's Oldest Black Congregation: Union Church, 3007 Delisle Street
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Montreal's Oldest Black Congregation: Union Church, 3007 Delisle Street
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| Abstract |
In July 1907, a group of Montreal Black railway porters and their wives (founding members of the Coloured Women's Club) convened a meeting to consider establishing their own church. As a result of this meeting, a group of twenty-six people worshipped together for the first time as the Union Congregational Church on September 1, 1907. The Union Church moved to Delisle Street, corner Atwater, in 1917. In 1925, Union Congregational Church was a part of the amalgamation of many Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Methodist churches that became the United Church of Canada. In 1976, when the Montreal administration announced its intention to expand the city's Metro system by building a new station directly behind the Union United Church, the congregation feared the building would be demolished and forced to relocate. The author wrote this book to help preserve the history of Union United Church. Fortunately, in 1978, the underground structure of the newly opened Lionel Groulx station allowed Union United Church to remain at its location at 3007 Delisle Street.
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Pierrefonds, QC
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Bilongo Publishers
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1976
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30p.
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en
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Bertley, Leo W. Montreal’s Oldest Black Congregation: Union Church, 3007 Delisle Street. Pierrefonds, QC: Bilongo Publishers, 1976.
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