Significant Structural Details

• Functional design, with lower and higher ceilings sweeping up in opposite directions
• Has a concrete beam supporting the clerestory window
• Has a small brick wall on the narthex Exterior & interior finish of plain brick and exposed concrete blocks, with a red clay tile floor
• Chancel furniture is solid brick and concrete assembled with economy of line
• Has a smoked glass bowl which forms the baptismal font
• Dominating the exterior & the interior appearance is the large plain cross
• The cross on the interior erected in Sept 1963, was made from a tall tamarack tree
  which once grew on the site which has been overlaid with a Cherry coloured wood to match the furniture at the front of the church
• Present church begun & completed in 1963

Historical Details of Westminster United Church

• Need for a Sunday school in the area established by survey in June 1954
• Sunday school held in Balsam Street School - Oct 1954 – 101 children and 21 adults
• Establishment of the adult church and name Westminster United selected in March 1956
• Portable church established on Melvin & Dobie Street site in 1958
• Above site exchanged in June of 1962 for the permanent site at present location
• First service in present church Dec 22 1963 Northland Parish established summer of 1970, team ministry of Rev. Ken Rentz & Rev, Bob Stiven established