Victoria Road Gospel Hall, Nanaimo, BC
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Twelve miles north of Ladysmith is Nanaimo, where one of the oldest assemblies in British Columbia met. In 1904, a small gathering of believers met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. Marshall in Irwin Street in Nanaimo. Will Rae, a traveling salesman from Vancouver, initiated the meeting for Remembering the Lord and for Bible study. The families of Sandy Stewart, James Cochrane, Robert Lindsay, Leslie Richmond, and others were involved in the beginning of the Nanaimo assembly.
For a time, the believers rented a Finnish assembly hall in Nanaimo. Later they purchased the building and named it Victoria Road Gospel Hall. The assembly numbered about 60 in the 1950s. At one time, Sunday School attendance reached 250 students. As the Sunday School grew, the brethren excavated a basement on the property, then added above-ground rooms for the Sunday School and youth programs. The believers built and moved into the Wakesiah Gospel Chapel on Wakesiah Avenue in 1975, their present location. Robert Burns is commended as a full-time worker for the assembly, and was for a time the executive director of Camp Imadene. About 100 adults and children are in the assembly today.
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Victoria Road Gospel Hall, Nanaimo, BC
Wakesiah Gospel Chapel, Nanaimo, BC
Lathom Road Gospel Hall, Port Alberni, BC
Helen Street Gospel Hall, Port Alberni, BC
[edit] Author
Dan H. Smith, Ed.D. President, Emmaus Bible College
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Questionnaire responses and other correspondence
History of the Assembly in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, by Amy Spence, 1987
History Outline of the Balsam Bay Assembly, by Harry Newman, 1977
Brandon Gospel Hall, 1888 - 1988
The (Austin) Gospel Hall Story, by Lyle Knox, about 1985
St. James Gospel Chapel, Historic Highlights, undated
History of Arlington Street Gospel Chapel, by H. Zimmermann, undated
Letters of Interest, June 1955, p. 12
