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Tre`s Saint Nom de Jesus Cathedral, Montreal under threat of demolition!

Started by KB7DQH, October 09, 2010, 08:21:03 PM

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Follows is a link to a .pdf file from the Casavant-Freres website, showing two photographs of this instrument and stoplist...

Valued at $2million CDN  and reportedly would cost half that to move, efforts are underway to save the cathedral from being demolished, the building having been closed by the fire department because of "safety issues"...  Organ was fully restored ten years ago!

Comments to the news articles indicate the public wishes for the organ to be saved if the cathedral can't be...

http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/anglais/History/Early/0600.pdf
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Also from the Casavant-Freres website, an article written for an English publication from none other than Henry Willis-- on visiting the United States and Canada...

In this article he has an opportunity to visit the organ currently under discussion...

http://www.casavant.ca/new_temp/pdf/12.pdf
The objective is to reach human immortality—that is, to create things which are necessary to mankind, necessary to the purpose of the existence of mankind, and which have become the fruit that drives the creation of a higher state of mankind than ever existed before."