St.-Bernard - St.-Bernard, Nouvelle-Écosse (Nova Scotia) CRW_7575
One of a string of imposing Catholic churches that stand out along Nova Scotia's ''French Shore'' (the northwestern shoulder of the province, where Acadian settlers concentrated their return following the Great Expulsion of the 1750's.)
It was begun in 1910, to replace the village's original 1855 church. Made by local craftsmen of hand-cut granite blocks quarried from nearby Shelburne, it took 32 years to complete - at which point its predecessor was finally demolished.
St.-Bernard - St.-Bernard, Nouvelle-Écosse (Nova Scotia) CRW_7575
One of a string of imposing Catholic churches that stand out along Nova Scotia's ''French Shore'' (the northwestern shoulder of the province, where Acadian settlers concentrated their return following the Great Expulsion of the 1750's.)
It was begun in 1910, to replace the village's original 1855 church. Made by local craftsmen of hand-cut granite blocks quarried from nearby Shelburne, it took 32 years to complete - at which point its predecessor was finally demolished.