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==''''''Canada Quebec==
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.
Black Cape Gospel Hall started in 1889 in the town of that name on the south shore of the Gaspe Peninsula. B.C. Greenman, e. Lyman, Mr. McCaffery, and Mr. Harvey are those credited with starting the assembly, all of whom had brethren backgrounds. Alex Irvine worked full time there for many years. At Black Cape, as with many of these Gaspe assemblies, the work suffered because so many Christians found it necessary to go elsewhere to find suitable employment. In the early 1980s, the Hall was closed and the assembly relocated to Bethel Bible Chapel in nearby New Richmond.
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Grand Cascapedia Gospel Chapel which disbanded in the early 1980s, was a hive-off from Black Cape Gospel Hall. Samuel Stewart and Victor Harrington served there for many years. In the 1950s, the only Gospel testimony in the small community of Cullens’ Brook was the Cullens’ Brook Assembly.
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Groupe biblique du Richelieu in Beloeil has its roots in home prayer meetings beginning in 1976. From that group of 15 adults, most of whom were attending Groupe biblique de la Rive-Sud at Longueuil on the south shore of Montreal, the assembly was begun in 1980 through the efforts of Fernand and Yolande Saint-Louis and Leslie Muirhead. elders over the years include Fernand Saint-Louis, Leslie R. Russell, Marcel Larin, James Copeland, Philippe Klopfeintein, and François Cholet. Groupe biblique du Richelieu meets in a school on Sundays, has commended a worker to the Lord’s work in France, and consists of about 20 adults and children. Fernand Saint-Louis is known for his French-speaking radio program “La Foi Vivifiante,” which is beamed throughout the French-speaking world.
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