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 Over Over the years, several workers settled at Black Cape to carry on the work. [[Alex Stuart ]] from New Brunswick, who had initially visited the assembly in 1920, was apparently the first full-time worker here. Others followed, including the Moirs with their three daughters and then Alex’s son, [[Sam Stewart ]] and wife Margaret (Wray), who arrived in the fall of 1930 immediately following their marriage that September. Six years later, they moved on to New Carlisle and then to Grand Cascapedia, spending a total of thirteen years on the Gaspé coast.

In 1937, following their own marriage, [[Alex Irvine]] and wife Edith (Jones) Irvine arrived to spend the next four decades as resident workers at Black Cape. The author had the distinct privilege of meeting the Irvines “on-site” in the early 1970s, sometime before the Gospel Hall was demolished in the summer of 1974. Due to health problems, the Irvines moved to Nova Scotia in 1978 where, after four coronaries in which his heart was badly damaged, our brother passed away the following year at the age of 76. Other commended workers that I am aware of who subsequently served here or elsewhere among the assemblies on the southern Gaspé coast include [[Milton Lovering]], [[Victor Harrington ]] and [[Jim Mitchell ]] together [with their wives. Jim Mitchell’s wife, Claudette Jacques, was a student of mine in the 1970s at [[Bethel Bible Institute in Sherbrooke. Kelvin and Mabel Carmichael came in 1980 and left in 1986. Ian and Elizabeth Smith followed, leaving ]] in late 1990. [[Phil Baxter]] and wife Carol Baxter were commended to the work here in the spring of 1991.