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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]], [[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. 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. Soon a basement meeting place was secured and ten years later the assembly was renting the Anglican Church, ultimately purchasing it.
In the meantime, Jacques Saint-Laurent had moved here in 1968 from Girardville, bringing with him a marked zeal for evangelization. Soon the local radio station was carrying ''La foi vivifiante'', Fernand Saint-Louis at the microphone. Tracts were distributed throughout the area including the towns of Chapais, Quévillon and Val d'Or. In 1978, the assembly numbered twenty-five baptized believers and an equal number of interested contacts.
