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The following summer witnessed the arrival of Mr. John Alden, his wife and three children who came from Miami, Florida, to help in the work at Cyrville. Being a photographer, he supported himself and family until such time as the Lord might open the way for him to give all his time to the work. In the meantime, he and his family lived in the apartment at the back of the hall and helped with the construction work on the building. The couple soon retired from the work.
Shortly after this, the city annexed the area and the French people moved east. By 1954 at the latest, French meetings had disbanded at Saint Laurent Chapel, now Evangel Chapel, and the work had become an English one. An An interesting note: In 1961 Evangel Chapel commended a Mrs. Jeanne Boivin to visitation work among the French in the areaand from 1962 to 1966 an Assemblée chrétienne is listed in the magazine AURORE as existing in Ottawa, meetings being held on Sunday afternoon. Evangel Chapel soon eventually became known as Carson Grove Bible Fellowship. In the late nineties, the English congregation moved to newly-constructed quarters in Gloucester, ON, and took the name Pine Grove Bible Church. The original building on Saint Laurent Avenue was sold in 1986 and eventually demolished sometime after the turn of the century. While little material evidence remains of the work carried on by Mr. Germain, we do have his own small black French hymnbook from which he often sang and which carries his signature on the flyleaf.
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=Correspondents=
* Louis Germain 1943-1953
* Jacques Duchemin 1962-19641966
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