A start at UCA

The archivists at the United Church Archives were very helpful.  The archive at 40 Oak street has a small viewing room in the basement.  The rest of the building was bubbling with activity.  They have a community garden, a flower garden with benches, and inside various programs including a free lunch program that is buzzing with people.  

Upstairs is a contrast to the quiet Archives in the basement.

When you get to the archive you sign in, state your research objective, and tuck your belongings in a locker.  The Archivest brought out some records that were not date restricted and some that we had to look at together because of privacy laws. I looked through the communion and other registries and found one interesting entry which I’m going to follow up on at the Reference Library on Yonge street.  We didn’t find anything in the restricted books but there were, in some cases, 10 years  of documents missing.  So the doc I’m looking for could just be in those missing years.  

Off to the reference library.

United Church Archives, Toronto