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[[Assemblee Chretienne de Shawinigan, QC|Assemblée chrétienne de Shawinigan]], Shawinigan, Mauricie, Central [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] is a French open brethren assembly.
In late 1949, [[Paul Boëda]] and his family moved from Cap-de-la-Madeleine to Shawinigan Falls where there was already considerable interest. [[Joseph Darling]] and his wife Gertrude, commended from their home assembly in Grand Haven, Michigan, and in the province since 1946, soon joined them. The work went on slowly but steadily , meeting in homes during the winter of 1949-1950, until a public place for meetings was opened.
Major opposition was not long in coming. In April 1950, a riot involving as many as a thousand local citizens broke out in the street before the meeting place where believers were gathered. The police being unable to control the crowd, an automobile was overturned, a gospel sign torn down and thrown into the river and the store-front meeting place was sacked while believers sheltered on the second floor. News media across North America and around the world carried the report. An existing scrapbook of newspaper clippings and similar items gives proof to how widespread the coverage was. As would be said today, it went viral! North American business enterprises with representatives and/or offices in Shawinigan threatened to pull out if municipal authorities could not control the populace. The mayor was obliged to settle for damages, part of the reasonable amount paid out going toward the eventual construction of a Gospel Hall. This proved to be a turning point in the history of the work throughout Quebec. Henceforth opposition and harassment were more subtle and significantly toned down.