Fonds consists of textual materials generated by Cote Pastoral Charge, its predecessors and constituent churches – their boards, committees and related bodies, local women’s units and other groups.

Contents include: minutes of church session and Manse Building Committee meetings; minutes and financial records of local Women’s Missionary Society (W.M.S.) and United Church Women (U.C.W.) groups; correspondence relating to church buildings; a communion roll; and church records documenting baptisms and marriages in the area. Cote Reserve, Crowstand [Mission], Kesekoos, and Kamsack are among the congregations and communities identified in this fonds.

The fonds consists of records created by the Saskatchewan Synod branch of the Presbyterian W.M.S., its treasurers and members, as well as records from various Presbyterial W.M.S. groups.

Contents include: branch meeting minutes (1924-1926); treasurer’s accounts (1914-1926); membership records of Junior and Life members; annual meeting programs (1915-1925); and a collection of materials assembled by Mary S. Scott McKechnie, the first president of the [Saskatchewan] Provincial W.M.S. and of Qu’Appelle Presbytery W.M.S. The materials collected by McKechnie include: Presidential Addresses and Annual Reports of the Saskatchewan Presbyterian W.M.S. (1915-1924); history of Presbyterian W.M.S., for Diamond Jubilee (ca.1924); W.M.S. annual meeting programs (1916-1925); Qu’Appelle Presbyterial W.M.S. annual reports (1907-1926); and copies of newsletters “Echo” (Qu’Appelle) and “Progress” (from the Regina Industrial School), along with photographs of pupils at File Hills school (1925), Round Lake School (no date), and Cote Day School (no date).

The collection also includes meeting minutes from W.M.S. Presbyterial groups from Abernethy, Alameda, Prince Albert, Qu’Appelle, and Saskatoon.