St. Paul's is a church on the move...from one country to another, with a little help from Ma Bell...that story next.

The towns of Norton, Averill, and Stanhope, Quebec were moving their Anglican Church to Canada on this day in 1966. In earlier times, St. Paul's communicants overflowed the pews placing chairs in the aisles, and some even had to stand outside.

Attendance slipped during the 1900s. Parishioners finally decided it would be better to give the church to the Dixville Home in Dixville, Quebec, rather than shut it down and watch the building deteriorate.

The church was moved four and a half miles, accompanied by Bell Telephone and Hydro Quebec work crews, who cut and then repaired lines to clear the way.

Photo courtesy Three Towns (Norton, Averill, Stanhope) by Lydia C. Andrews.

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