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One of the earliest ‘open’ assemblies was located on Saint Antoine Street in Montreal. Its beginnings are lost to memory. This meeting consisted of a number of local brethren as well as others from the British West Indies. In the mid-1920s the work divided, with the more conservative element moving away. It was this latter group that would form the nucleus of what is now known as Grace Gospel Hall, a bilingual work. It was described by [[Arnold John Myers Reynolds |Arnold Reynolds]] as “the most conservative of any of the (English) assemblies”.
"By 1926 they were meeting in the Park Extension sector of Montreal and were known as the Park Extension Gospel Hall. Encouraged by the zeal and enthusiasm for evangelism of one of the brethren, the assembly reached out to the francophone community around them through the distribution of Gospel tracts. Needless to say, they met with significant opposition. When John Spreeman and Noah Gratton first arrived in the province to begin French work in 1926 and 1933 respectively, they made this assembly their English base of operation.