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Blue plaque № 59458

Banff, AB, Canada

ST. MARY'S OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH. Fathers Blanchet and Demers held the first Mass in the Canadian Rockies in 1833 at the "Committee Punch Bowl" on the summit of Athabasca Pass, 225 km north of Banff, at the request of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1845, Father DeSmet did missionary work w

ith the First Nations. Father Claude offered the first local Mass in 1883 beside the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) line at the base of Cascade Mountain for railway workers. Father Doucet offered the

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