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==History==

The This assembly officially began in 1951, a year after Jean-Paul Berney arrived from Switerzerland. It first met at 156 rue Crémazie, coin Candiac, then at 54 rue Sainte-Ursule before moving on in 1952 to a location on rue Cartier and two years later , in May of 1954 , to 610 rue Belvédère. Meetings were held in the basement which had been finished off while the upper, unfinished floor was home to Jean Heidman and Mabel Quinlan.

Personality conflicts between Paul Boëda and Harry McCready together with Alphonse Lacombe’s reading McCready out of the assembly and, for all practical purposes, marginalizing Jean-Paul Berney, both contributed to a division in the assembly as of December 1954. Mr. Berney resigned his “post and duties as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christian Assembly of Quebec” as of February 8, 1955. The brethren Boëda and Lacombe had come from or been sent by the Cap to deal with the situation. With their arrival came a certain fear of possible violence.

By 1963, there was talk of getting rid of the building which all considered to have been a gigantic error. The following year we learn that a decision had been reached to keep it and proceed with repairs. Nonetheless, it was finally sold to the C&MA, an evangelical group in which Jean Heidman was by then serving as pastor. With the sale of the building in 1969, meetings continued at the YWCA on rue Holland. In 1973, operations were moved to the Berney home on Maskinongé in Sainte-Foy until the following year when the Maison Dompierre was completed. The ''Assemblée Évangélique de Sainte-Foy'' had now found its permanent meeting place.

 

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