"A Welcoming Congregation" is a UU program that educates congregations on how to be welcoming to people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. The LUF was the third UU congregation in Canada to become a welcoming congregation; they completed the necessary training in 1995 and the status was renewed in 2011 after additional training on how to be inclusive of transgender identities.
Letters, booklets, and brochures about how to govern and organize the congregation.
"Denominational Affairs" Aurora Institute and USC
Individual members were involved with wider UU programming and events such as the Aurora Institute and the USC. The Aurora Institute was a network of UU congregations that worked together to create new programs for UU congregations; it was short-lived. The Unitarian Service Committee of Canada is a non-profit within the CUC that provides disaster relief and humanitarian aid around the world. LUF board and committee members were in contact with both corporations.
Includes lectures from the UUA Historical society, newspaper clippings, photo negatives, and reports. This material was received with sticky notes telling the administrator to store it with 'history and archive binders' and files labeled 'history.' Includes newspaper clippings and photographs, and older material on the initial purchase of the building.
"Receipts and finances from 1984"
Received in a large legal envelope, includes receipts, bank statements, invoices, and building fund deposit book.
Files from original order. The Strategic Planning committee drafted and revised the mission statements and vision for the LUF. They surveyed the needs and wants of the congregation and of the Thunder Bay community as a whole. They outlined future plans and made recommendations for what the board and other committees should prioritize.
An extension of the CUC, "Western Canada District UUA" was first established under a different name in 1901 and became the Western District CUC in 1982. They ran annual conferences where congregations across Western North America would meet and commune together. Materials include conference planning and reveal LUF's role in the Western district.
"Worship Materials from Unitarian Universalist Minister's Association"
Received in a binder, collection of poems, articles, and prose to use in Order of Service materials.
Minutes for:
1958-1964.
1964-1971.
1971- 1984.
1984 - 1989.
1990- 1993.
1993 -1996.
1996- 2000.
2000- 2003.
While mostly older newsletters, file also includes reports and correspondence. Sticky notes reflect the history project.
Older newsletters outline upcoming programs, include a "note from the president", and outline what was being discussed and happening in the fellowship that month.
From 1990 onwards newsletters followed a more regular format, showing what was happening that month and providing updates.
Minutes for:
2003 - 2005.
2005 - 2007.
2007 - 2009.
2009 - 2011.
These files include correspondence pertaining to the search for a building, the legal paperwork surrounding the acquisition of the building, how they financed it, the renovations that were planned and renovations that actually occurred, and insurance information. Includes floor plans and drawings of the building of the Algoma building. Older material on the initial purchase of building is found with historical material.
Earlier minutes are transcribed accounts of the board meetings, while later minutes are formal agendas with an outline of the board’s discussion and their concerns of that week. UU recommends the board organize their records by year which is what the LUF did, using binders to sort time periods. The original arrangement was not disturbed; the binders were replaced with folders. Length of board minutes vary.