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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 UCM-SE2 Minute books.

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 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 series contains records regarding Church finances during normal operations from 1911 to 2023. It does not represent a complete record of Church finances in that time but does include a ledger book from May 1930-1938, financial reports from 1950-1961, auditors reports from 1980-1983 and budgets from the 2000s.

Series consists of minutes books and several file folders detailing the events of meetings and Church goings on from June 1842 to February 2023. The volumes are labelled alphabetically and with their dates up to L, after which point they are simply labelled with their dates or not at all. The volumes are organized in chronological order, both in their boxes and internally, with some variation on the latter. The dates covered in each volume, with notes on their internal arrangement, are noted in an Arrangement note.

The minute books also contain annual reports post-2018. See UCM-SE5 Annual reports for more information.

This series contains the newsletters created by the Church from 1950 to 2021. Published on a monthly basis, these roughly 2-5 page documents typically contain reports of past and future events at the Church. This includes dates, times and topics of future services; acts of civil service like baptisms that have occurred over the past month; the names of new Church members as well as the deaths of Church members and the dates of their memorial services. The information included varies from year to year and also changes depending on the editor and minister of the time, however they often also include news from various Church clubs and organizations, important personal milestones in members’ lives, profiles on Church officers and members, short essays written by the active minister and poetry or selections from non-religious literature.

The titles of the newsletters changed over time, they were called “Bulletin” or “News Bulletin” from 1950 to 1979, changing to “NUUS” until 2009 when the title became “Gathered Here.”

At the file level, the newsletters are organized chronologically into files that contain September of one year into May of the next. The collection of newsletters in the early 60’s is spotty, with there being an almost total absence from 1963-1966.

Orders of service and calendars also contain information about Church events, see UCM-SE1 Orders of service, music lists, calendars for more information.

This series contains the orders of service, music lists and calendars created by the Church. All three types of material have some overlapping purposes in the planning of the services and the communication of their content. Calendars were created from 1905 to 1953 after which orders of service begin to be created. The music lists exist chronologically alongside or instead of orders of service from 1947 to 1953.

Orders of service tend to have more information about the services than the calendars which again tend to have more information about the services than the music lists.

This series contains the correspondence and copies of legal documents related to the bequest to the Church of a property in Rawdon, QC by Nicholas Jonas, who died December 6, 1971. The process of transfer took some time, so the Church only took ownership of the property in August of 1975. The series includes a travel map of Rawdon with the lot marked in pencil, as well a map of all the lots in the area. Also included are property tax receipts, correspondence with the Jonas family and a copy of Nicholas Jonas’ holographic will, dated December 14, 1959.

This series contains records related to the property on the corner of Sherbrooke and Simpson streets. Construction of the main church building and Channing Hall began in October 20, 1906 and the congregation moved in on September 1, 1907. Unitarian House was purchased in September of 1946 and was located at 3419 and 3421 Simpson street, immediately to the north of the main church property. Channing Hall housed a pastor’s study, a kitchen and rooms dedicated to various purposes over the years. It also housed the Sunday school. Over the years 1968 to 1970 Channing Hall underwent a remodelling. After the purchase of Unitarian House, the buildings were subdivided into classrooms for the Sunday school. It was in use by the church until 1978, when it began to be leased to various tenants.
The Church remained at this property until the fire of May 25, 1987, which destroyed the main church building.

The series is comprised architectural drawings related to the construction and renovation of all buildings on the property, including not only the main church building but also Unitarian House and Channing Hall. Beyond this, it also contains other documents related to the property such as surveyor’s reports, deeds, financial reports on building upkeep, meeting minutes, correspondence related to the building, newspaper clippings, as well as photographs and drawings of the buildings.

This series also contains records related to the post-fire response and rebuilding effort. These include meeting minutes, reports on the cost of rebuilding, proposals for rebuilding/moving and opinion polling of the congregation. There is also a small amount of correspondence related to public response to proposed rebuilding projects and newspaper clippings.

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.