Black Cape Gospel Hall, QC
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[edit] History
Black Cape Gospel Hall, QC started in 1889 in the town of that name on the south shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. B.C. Greenman, E. Lyman, Mr. McCaffery, and Mr. Harvey are those credited with starting the assembly, all of whom had brethren backgrounds. Alex Irvine worked full time there for many years. At Black Cape, as with many of these Gaspé assemblies, the work suffered because so many Christians found it necessary to go elsewhere to find suitable employment. In the early 1980s, the Hall was closed and the assembly relocated to Bethel Bible Chapel, New Richmond, QC .
Grand Cascapedia Gospel Chapel, QC which disbanded in the early 1980s, was a hive-off from Black Cape Gospel Hall, QC. Samuel Stewart and Victor Harrington served there for many years. In the 1950s, the only Gospel testimony in the small community of Cullens’ Brook was the Cullens’ Brook Assembly, QC.
The work in Rivière-du-Loup, located east of Quebec City on the way to the Gaspé Peninsula, was begun in 1975 with the arrival of Joseph and Jessie Tremblay. This brother, a converted Roman Catholic priest, carries on a French radio ministry which over the years has reached many with the Gospel. The Assemblée chrétienne de Rivière-du-Loup, QC meets in the Tremblay home.
[edit] Also See
Ayer’s Cliff Gospel Chapel, QC
Black Cape Gospel Hall, QC
Bethel Bible Chapel, New Richmond, QC
New Carlisle Gospel Chapel, QC
Grand Cascapedia Gospel Chapel, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Rivière-du-Loup, QC
Églises des frères chrétiens de Girardville, QC
[edit] Author
Dan H. Smith, Ed.D. President, Emmaus Bible College
[edit] Resources
Looking Backward, Pressing Forward: A Brief History of the Montreal Assemblies of Christians known as brethren, 1860s-1993 by George H. Dixon.
30th Anniversary of God's Faithfulness to Huntingville Community Church, 1955 _ 1985.
Sorel - Dedication of a New Chapel, 1996
Portfolio of Huntingville Community Church, undated
News of Quebec, vol. 41, #1, spring 1986; vol. 41, #2, summer 1986; vol. 41, #3, fall 1986; vol. 42, #1, spring 1987; vol. 42, #2, summer 1987; vol. 44, #2, summer 1989; vol. 44, #3, fall 1989.
Letters of Interest, June 1945, p. 13; September 1946, p. 33; June 1948, p. 19; May 1950, p. 17; October 1955, p. 14; November 1955, p. 7; January 1958, p. 3; June 1962, p. 21; July/August September 1963, p. 8; April 1971, p. 16; September 1973, p. 6; January 1985, p. 8.
[edit] Ending Note
There about two dozen additional present-day assemblies of French-speaking believers in Quebec for which the necessary historical information is lacking
