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This sub-series contains the card catalogue used to locate acts of civil service within the acts of civil service registers found in UCM-SE7-SU1. The 3 x 5 cards are organized alphabetically by last name. Each one has the name of the relevant person written at the top. The body of the cards contain four columns; Acts of Civil Status, Dates, Register No. and Folio No. The latter two columns reference the number of the register and then folio number that is often written along the top of the page of the relevant register. Later registers eschew folio numbers for page numbers.

This sub-series contains the registers of acts of civil service kept by the church from 1845 to present. Acts of civil service recorded include births, baptisms, marriages and burials. Earlier records are more likely to record baptisms, while later are more likely to record just births.

On average, the 30 volumes in this sub-series span roughly 6 years with the shortest being volume 28 (August 21, 1993 to December 26, 1993) and the longest being volume 7 (December 20, 1893 to December 30, 1905).

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 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.

This series contains records related to the development and administration of the Unitarian Church of Montreal Archives from 1989-2012, during the tenure of archivists Dorothy Clarke and Barbrara Jackson.

It includes correspondence on various subjects; encompassing acquisitions, the donation of the Angus Cameron Papers to the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Canadian Unitarian Universalist Archival Record Survey and efforts to conserve artifacts held by the Church. Beyond this there are also some planning documents and copies of publicity about the Archives. Also included are reference materials for archival work.

The series also contains binders B18 to B21;

• B18 contains the minutes and financial information of the Heritage Committee responsible for administration of the archives from 2009
• B19 contains indexes and other information about the Archives as it was in 2012.
• B20 and B21 contain records of reference requests made to the archivist

This series contains records related to the Church property on the corner of Beaver Hall Hill and la Gauchetière street. It includes a handwritten ledger of costs associated with the construction of the second church building on the property from 1858, as well as photocopies of "Montreal then and Now" articles, about the church building, from the Montréal Gazette written in the 1980s.

The Church was located on this property from 1844 until 1905. During this time, the Church was housed in two buildings, one built in 1845 and another in 1858. The latter of these buildings was partially destroyed by fire in 1869 and rebuilt. In 1907 the congregation moved to the property located at the corner of Sherbrooke and Simpson streets.

This sub-series contains the calendars created by the Church between 1905 and 1953. Although the earliest calendar exists from 1905, calendars exist on a consistent basis from 1909 to 1925 and then from 1927 to 1953. The pre-1921 calendars tend to have more detailed overview of the activities of the Church, including services, sermons, mariages, baptisms, deaths and other meetings, while the calendars dating after that are more akin to orders of service (see the orders of service series, linked below in related materials, for more details).

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 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.