CHÉTICAMP, N.S. — As legend has it, Chéticamp’s iconic church was finished on time thanks to the priest’s blessing. The winter of 1892-1893 was coming to ...
Charles Dan Roach of Chéticamp has attended this church, Église Saint-Pierre, his entire life. The Roman Catholic cathedral has towered over the rest of the village for 130 years. Its sandstone-based architecture, size and importance in the community makes Église Saint-Pierre one of Cape Breton's most important churches. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POSTChurch Brewing: where the customers are the congregation and the choir | SaltWireCHÉTICAMP, N.S.
That’s when Father Pierre Fiset told them not to fear, according to local historian and longtime churchgoer Charles Dan Roach. In August, the Post toured the 130-year-old house of worship with Roach. The 75-year-old attended church there his entire life and had some of his greatest, albeit nerve-wracking, memories there. He remembers directing the church choir for the first time in 1985 in front of a packed church. The church — complete with a main floor and upstairs galleries — can fit more than 500 people.
Église Saint-Pierre's pipe organ in the middle of the church's second-floor gallery. The instrument was custom-built in Quebec in the 1900s and cost the equivalent of more than $50,000 today. LUKE DYMENT/CAPE BRETON POST Father Pierre Fiset, the driving force behind Chéticamp’s late-19th century economic boom and construction of Église Saint-Pierre. Although originally from Quebec, he lived his later life in Chéticamp and was buried beneath the church. CONTRIBUTED/MAISON FISET HOUSE
It took about a year and some prayers to get the sandstone to where it needed to be. But they pulled off Chéticamp’s greatest architectural feat as a community. The village celebrated with its first mass on Dec. 18, 1893. The coming years at Église Saint-Pierre won’t be any cheaper. The inside of the church needs repainting, while floor and ceiling refurbishments are planned.
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