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History of Metro Vancouver: Sacred Heart Church, 1890

img: City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, SGN 50. Photo Charles S.

 img: City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, SGN 50. Photo Charles S. Baileyimg: City of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­Archives, SGN 50. Photo Charles S. Bailey

1890

Sacred Heart Church

Originally named Sacred Heart, Greater Vancouver’s oldest surviving Catholic church was built in North Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­in 1884 for the Squamish Nation members who had converted. Seen here in an 1890s photo, the church was rededicated as St. Paul’s in honour of the second Catholic bishop of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­when the church was renovated in 1910.

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