Canada – Quebec
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Brethren assemblies first appeared in Quebec in the late 1850s or shortly thereafter. These were associated with the ‘exclusive’ groups. Lord Adelbert Percy Cecil ministered among such until his death in 1889.
Open brethren assemblies appear to have sprung up in Montreal about the turn of the century. The earliest of these assemblies were English-speaking. The first traces of an effort to establish an assembly testimony among the French Canadians date from the 1870s. Not until the mid-1920s, however, was a sustained effort put forth by persons connected with the brethren movement to evangelize the French-speaking population of Canada.
The evangelical revival in Quebec that occurred during the days of the converted priest Charles Chiniquy in the latter half of the 1800s, had practically died out by the 1920s. Opposition to the Gospel was at its peak. In those days Quebec was in the grip of the Roman Catholic Church. French Canadians saw the Church as part of their cultural heritage and identity. Any who abandoned it were said to be abandoning their own people.
[edit] Quebec
[edit] Montréal
Arabic Gospel Church, Montreal, QC
Assemblée chrétienne du centre-sud de Montréal, QC
Assemblée chrétienne Maranatha, Montreal, QC
Bethel Chapel, Pointe Claire, QC
Côte St-Luc Bible Chapel, Montreal, QC
Draper Avenue Gospel Hall, Montreal, QC
Église évangélique La Source, Montreal, QC
Grace Gospel Hall, St. Laurent, QC
Groupe biblique de l’ouest de Montréal, QC
Newman Place Meeting Hall, Montreal, QC
Ogilvy Avenue Gospel Hall, Montreal, QC
Park Extension Gospel Hall, Montreal, QC
St. Antoine Street Gospel Hall, Montreal, QC
Westview Bible Church, Beaconsfield, QC
[edit] Girardville
Église des frères chrétiens de Girardville, QC
Églises des frères chrétiens de Girardville, QC
[edit] Quebec
Assemblee Evangelique de Sainte-Foy, QC
L'Assemblee Chretienne Bonne Nouvelle, QC
[edit] Rosemount
Ebenezer Gospel Chapel, Rosemount, QC
Ebenezer Gospel Hall, Rosemount, QC
[edit] Westmount
Bethel Gospel Chapel, Westmount, QC
West End Christian Fellowship, Westmount, QC
[edit] Other Assemblies in Quebec
Assemblée chrétienne de la Baie, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Cabano, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Cap-de-la-Madeleine, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Cookshire, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Drummondville, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Farnham, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Girardville, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Granby, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Grand’mère, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Jonquiere, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de La Tuque, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Montmagny, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Québec, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Rivière-du-Loup, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Rollet, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Shawinigan, Shawinigan Falls, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Sherbrooke, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Sorel, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Stanstead, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de St. Boniface, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Thedford Mines, QC
Assemblée chrétienne de Trois-Rivières-Ouest, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de Cloridorme, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de La Pocatiere, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de Ste-Jean, Richelieu, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de Ste-Pascal, QC
Assemblée chrétienne évangélique de Ste-Timothee, QC
Assemblée chrétienne Source de Vie, Lennoxville, QC
Assemblée évangélique de la Rive-Sud, St.-Jean-Chrysotome, QC
Assemblée évangélique de Ste-Foy, QC
Ayer’s Cliff Gospel Chapel, QC
Bethel Bible Chapel, New Richmond, QC
Bethel Chapel, Pointe Claire, QC
Centre Christian Evangelique, La Tuque, QC
Cherry River Gospel Chapel, QC
Église Bethanie, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC
Église évangélique de Chibougamau, QC
Église évangélique de Chicoutimi, QC
Église évangélique de Jonquière, Kenogami, QC
Grace Gospel Hall, Ville St. Laurent, QC
Grand Cascapedia Gospel Chapel, QC
Groupe biblique de l'Outaouais, QC
Groupe biblique de la Rive-Sud, Longueuil, QC
Groupe biblique du Richelieu, Beloeil, QC
Hebron Gospel Hall, Verdun, QC
Huntingville Community Church, QC
L’Assemblée Chrétienne Lamater, Terrebonne, QC
New Carlisle Gospel Chapel, QC
Westview Bible Church, Dorval, QC
[edit] Assemblies Part of Quebec History
[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
