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This assembly officially began in 1951, a year after [[Jean-Paul Berney]] arrived from Switzerland. It first met at rue Crémazie, coin Candiac, then at rue Sainte-Ursule before moving on in 1952 to a location on rue Cartier and two years later, in May of 1954, to 610 rue Belvédère. Meetings were held in the basement which had been finished off while the upper, unfinished floor was home to [[Jean Heidman]] and [[Mabel Quinlan]].
Personality conflicts between [[Paul Boëda]] and [[Harry McCready]] together with Alphonse Lacombe’s reading McCready out of the assembly and, for all practical purposes, marginalizing Jean-Paul Berney, both contributed to a division in the assembly in December 1954. Mr. Berney resigned his “post and duties as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Christian Assembly of Quebec” as of February 8, 1955. The brethren Boëda and Lacombe had come from or been sent by the Cap to deal with the situation. With their arrival came a certain fear of possible violence.
The immediate issue appears to have been serious differences of opinion in the group as to the financial straits in which they had placed themselves for the construction of the new Chapelle Évangélique on rue Belvédère begun in 1953. Understandably, the one from whom they had borrowed a large sum of money ($30,000) was likely calling the shots and all were not pleased. According to Mr. Berney, Mr. Henry Heidman, Jean Heidman’s father, one who was involved in the discussions in Quebec City, was a significant source of finances. The Junction Assembly in Toronto was also involved in the project.
