Union Church McAdam Village

The Site of the Union Church is designated as a Local Historic Place for being the site of the first Protestant Church, a union of the denominations of Presbyterian, Baptist, Free Christian Baptist, Methodist and Congregationalist, which had held services previously in the salon of the McAdam Railway Station and in the railroad, car works building. The congregations were able to cooperate in building a church on this site in 1889-1890. Early community cooperation was shown in the calling of ministers from each of the denominations represented for support. The church building, a 13.7 metre x 8.5 metre Gothic Revival wood-framed meeting hall, was constructed by Joseph McVey, the building contractor of the Canadian Pacific Railway Station. It was used for 30 years. The church was shared and used until around the mid-1920's.

This church had many architecturally significant features on the exterior of the structure. One of the most striking features of this meeting house style building, was the Victorian Gothic Revival front façade, with its finials situated across the eaves on the gable end. The amount of detailing put into the woodwork is also significant, exemplified on the Gothic windows with their label hooded mouldings.

The Baptist congregation decided in the mid-1920’s to leave this union building, and to construct their own building with help from other Baptists in the area. This first Baptist church in the area that these Baptist folk built is the Rockland Drive United Baptist Church.

 Information provided by the McAdam Historical Society.