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This sub-series contains 331 architectural plans, as well as the planning documentation and correspondance, used in the design and construction of the current church building located at the corner of De Maisonneuve and Claremont. That number represents 60 individual plans, each with between 1 and 9 revisions. The revisions represent the back and forth process between the architects and the Church; as well as between the architects, engineers, contractors and city officials. The plans can be found in the tubes in the archive room, as well as in Box 10C. Box 10C also contains the correspondance between the Church and the architectural, engineering and contracting firms with the relevant plans attached.

Several different firms were responsible for the creation of the plans. Among these the primary architect on the project was Archictem, alternatively identified simply as such or as Architectem Wolff Shapiro Kuskowski. The engineering firm responsible for the project was Nicolet Chartrand Knoll Consulting Engineers. Please see the general note below for a breakdown of the plan designations.

This series contains registers of acts of civil service performed by the Church from 1845 to present and copies of declarations of marriage sent to le Directeur de l'état civil.

Records of acts of civil service are recorded in bound registers as well as in copies of declarations of marriage sent to le Directeur de l'état civil. Although a register is still kept, in 1993 le Directeur de l’état civil began to collect their own records, making the register redundant. Consequently, acts of civil service are not reliably recorded in registers past 1993.

This sub-series contains records related to the renovation and maintenance of the main church building and property located at the corner of Sherbrooke and Simpson before the fire in 1987. It also contains correspondance and internal reports related to a move proposed in 1983 that never occurred, as well as correspondence and legal documents related to dealings with the neighbouring Port Royal apartments from the 1960s and early 1970s. These include agreements and communication related to maintenance and use of a shared lane between the two properties, as well as the sale of a piece of the Church's lot to Port Royal in the early 1970s.

The majority of the series is comprised of architectural and zoning plans, as well as meeting minutes and internal Church reports, regarding the renovation and maintenance of the main church building. The architectural plans were drawn up by the firm Chadwick Pope & Edge through the 1960’s and early 1970’s. The zoning plans are from 1912, 1954, 1962 and 1972, presenting a good representation of how the lot changed over time. The reports and meeting minutes were generated by the Building Committee and Special Committee of Acoustics, including a survey of the congregation on space needs. There are also a 29 black and white photographs. 26 of these are of the interior of the church, used in a property study and focusing mostly on structural defects. The 3 remaining photographs are external shots of the church building from 1970. Also included is correspondence from la Musée des beaux arts related to the building’s stained glass windows.

This sub-series contains records related to the building and maintenance of Unitarian House and Channing Hall. It consists mostly of minutes, correspondence, internal reports and financial documents related to the management and maintenance of both buildings, including those related to the remodelling of Channing Hall from 1968 to 1970. It also includes copies of the leases between the Church and the tenants of Unitarian House beginning in 1978. There are also four architectural drawings of Channing Hall from Hugh & Jones Architects, dated June 8, 1914, and a drawing of Unitarian House by Phillip Mason

This fonds contains materials created and collected by the Unitarian Church of Montreal from 1842 to 2025.

The Church has gone under a number of names during its existence. At the file and item level, the material is attributed to the name used in those records. Where the name use is not consistent, the creator/collector of these records is referred to as "the Church."

This sub-series contains the minutes and reports generated by the committees created after the fire. Notably it also includes the results of a congregational survey done by the Building Needs Committee in 1988. The series also contains documents identifying those involved in said committees.

Before the purchase of the de Maisonneuve property in 1995, there were several proposals put forward regarding whether to rebuild on the same property or move to a new one. Many of these committees worked on multiple of these projects. The committees for which there are records are the following:

• The Options Committee (created January 13, 1988)
  This committee was responsible for recommending a building project to the Board of Management.

• The Building Needs Committee (created May 11, 1988)
  This committee was mandated to update the 1984 Property Study Committee Report (this can be found in UCM-SE10-SU2) in order to guide any rebuilding project. It also surveyed the congregation on the needs for a new church building.

• Building Committee (Operated from October 1988 to October 1989)
  This committee was mandated to oversee the design and construction of any new church building. It became the Design Committee in October 1989.

• Design Committee (created in October 1989)
  This committee oversaw design and use plans for any new church building.

• The Project Management Committee (created October 3, 1990)
  The series contains two written mandates for this committee. The first tasks it with recommending a building project and the second with acting on behalf of the Board of Management in dealings with developers. It appears that the Options Committee is often retroactively referred to as the Project Management Committee as well.

• Furniture, Fixings & Equipment Committee (was active 1995-1996)
  This committee was responsible for the internal details of the de Maisonneuve building.

The file contains only music lists from September 1947 to June 1949.

The file contains music lists from September 1952 to January 1953.

This series contains 7 small yearbooks of the Church of the Messiah for the years 1920-1926, including duplicates for the years 1923 and 1926 and one for 1920-1921. The yearbooks are a detailed record of the activities of the year and associated persons. Each contains a list of the officers of the church and its various committees, clubs and associated organizations. They also list the dates of acts of civil service and some have dates of special addresses given by the minister. The minister listed in all of them is Sydney B. Snow.

This series contains the annual reports created by the Church from 1869-2018. Annual reports after 2018 can be found in the Minute books series (linked under related materials). Also included is the report from the 2003 UUA General Assembly (in box 1F).

The annual reports in this series include reports from the active minister as well as from various church officers and organizations, financial reports and minutes from the annual meetings. They also occasionally include reports from other church districts and reports back from larger denominational meetings.

From 1974 to 2018 there are annual reports from each year. No annual reports exist earlier than 1869 and there are also none from the following years: from 1869 to 1898, 1901 to 1927, 1935 to 1944, 1948 to 1951, 1958, and from 1969 to 1973.