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A first indication of interest in work among Canada’s francophone population appears in 1864. At that time, a Mr. [[William Low]] from London was making plans to come to Canada in order to labour in French. However, after a meeting with Mr. Darby, he altered his plans in order to help Darby with his project to translate the entire Bible into French. The New Testament had already been completed in 1859; the Old Testament was published in 1885.
The real beginnings of the French Brethren work as it exists today, date from the arrival in [[Quebec ]] in 1926 of the first full-time, English-speaking commended worker. Eighteen years later, there appeared the first mimeographed issue of an English magazine destined to report the progress of the Brethren work in French Canada.
''[[News of Quebec]]'' is the only ongoing resource of its kind, dating from 1944 to the present and containing information of great historic value on the movement. Dr. [[Arthur Clare Hill]] of Sherbrooke was its founding editor and merits recognition for his support and encouragement of the French work by means of this periodical. As already stated, the magazine is quoted extensively in this history.
