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Our Lady of Good Hope Church is a small, one-storey, wood construction church on the shoreline of Stuart Lake in Fort St. James, British Columbia. The church was built by George Blanchet in 1873 and was the first permanent Catholic mission north of Williams Lake. The church and its nearby graveyard are valued for their associations with Carrier First Nations and with Father Adrien Gabriel Morice, a France-born missionary priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who ran a printing press for prayer books and a newspaper for the Carrier people, out of a cabin on the property.
The historic church was in steady use until 1951, and still holds occasional services today. Headstones in the nearby cemetery still feature the Carrier syllabics that Father Morice worked with.
From: https://heritagebc.ca/francophone-historic-place/our-lady-of-good-hope-catholic-church-and-father-morice-printing-house-fort-st-james/
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