- Church of Our Lady of Good Hope
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Church of Our Lady of Good Hope Country Canada Denomination Roman Catholic Website Listing at Diocesan website History Founded 1864 Dedication Our Lady of Good Hope Significant associated people Émile Petitot Architecture Status Mission Functional status Active Heritage designation National Historic Site of Canada Designated 1977 Architectural type Carpenter Gothic Groundbreaking 1865 Completed 1885 Specifications Length 45 feet (14 m) Width 25 feet (7.6 m) Number of floors 1 Number of spires 1 Materials Wooden frame Administration Archdiocese Grouard-McLennan Diocese Mackenzie-Fort Smith The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada. Only 45 feet by 25 feet in size, it was built between 1865 and 1885 as a mission of the Oblate Fathers. Father Émile Petitot, "renowned ethnologist, linguist and geographer of the Canadian northwest" was a resident of the mission from 1864 to 1878.[1][1]
The building's simple exterior, with its wooden siding, steep pitched roof, lancet windows and lancet entranceway under a steepled bell tower, make it a rather plain example of Carpenter Gothic style architecture, which belies the extraordinary painted decoration of its interior.[1][2]
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope is a National Historic Site as designated by the Government of Canada on June 6, 1977. The designation does not include the historic cemetery located to the left of the church building.[1]
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Categories:- Roman Catholic churches in the Northwest Territories
- Carpenter Gothic churches in Canada
- Buildings and structures in the Northwest Territories
- National Historic Sites in the Northwest Territories
- Heritage sites in the Northwest Territories
- Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Grouard-McLennan
- Canadian building and structure stubs
- Canadian church stubs
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