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[[Eglise Evangelique de Chibougamau, QC|Eglise évangélique de Chibougamau]], Chibougamau, Nord-du-Québec, Northern [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] is a French open brethren assembly founded in 1958 as a home meeting. Three years earlier, several believers from Girardville arrived in search of employment in the newly-opened mines. Occasional house meetings followed when brethren [[John Spreeman]] from Girardville or Roland Bouliane from La Tuque were visiting the area.
This northernmost of Quebec’s francophone assemblies, eventually took shape when [[[[Charles-Eugène Boulianne|Charles-Eugène Boulianne]]]], [[[[Howard Forbes|Howard Forbes]]]], and [[Roy Buttery]], all from Arvida over 200 miles to the southeast, gathered the Christians, already living in Chibougamau, for regular meetings in homes, the first being that of Ludovic Doucet. Soon a basement meeting place was secured and ten years later the assembly was renting the Anglican Church, ultimately purchasing it. Most of the early believers, for employment reasons, had moved here from Girardville where they had already been under the sound of the Gospel through the preaching of John Spreeman and other pioneers.
The assembly has carried on over the years, being dependent on some local gift while at the same time profiting greatly from the itinerant ministry of the above-named brethren and others.