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The following year, 1953, saw the arrival of Roland Lacombe, the first French-Canadian to be commended to full-time work in Quebec. Three years later, a school building was purchased, moved onto a piece of land and transformed into a Gospel Chapel with the help of Roy Buttery , recently arrived from Saskatchewan. Sometime prior to his moving on to the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, persecution resulted in Roy's spending a brief time in the local jail for having distributed Christian literature.
In 1959, Donald Cox with his wife, and Beth, Cox arrived to labour in collaboration with Roland Lacombe, the latter eventually departing for Sorel in 1966. He was followed by Joseph Doucet who came in the late 1960s from Detroit, Michigan, following his retirementfrom secular employment. By 1973, all full time workers had moved on to other ministries, the Cox family to the Gaspésie and Mr. Doucet to Saint-Hyacinthe. Richard and Virginia Strout along with his wife Virginia, serving the Lord at Bethel Bible Institute in Sherbrooke, gave a helping hand until the arrival of Wilfred and Sheila Buchanan in 1975.They were commended to the work the following year and served here until 1990. Others who subsequently laboured here included Donald and Alice Paquin, following a short period of service in Timmins, Ontario, as well as Normand and Jeannine Gosselin, originally associated with the work at Maranatha in Montreal.
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