*Location:

   Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
   91 Waterloo Street
   Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
   LL: N 45.27818, W 66.05633

   World's Industrial and Centennial
     Cotton Exposition
   New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
   91 Waterloo Street
   Saint John, NB  E2L 3P9
   T: 506-653-6820   F: 506-653-6827
   E: cic@nb.aibn.com

*Schedule:

   At noon daily

*Remarks:

   Composed of #2,3,5,6,7,9,10,11,12 from
   15-bell Exposition chime, plus 1 new
   bell (flat 7th).  Cathedral archives
   report purchase of the 10-bell chime,
   and that it had won a gold medal.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of 13 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The instrument was enlarged in unknown year
     with bells made by an unknown maker
   Prior history:
     In 1885, the instrument was begun with 10 bells
       by McShane     
       Pitch of heaviest bell was D  in the middle octave
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2001

The English Wikipedia article about the building has two photos of it and a paragraph about the chime, plus additional references.

A diocesan page about restoration of the cathedral opens with the sound of pealing bells, which may be from elsewhere.  A video (10:44) includes two brief views of the bells (at about 5:05); at least two swingers have been motorized, but all are silent now.

Where the initial phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of the McShane bellfoundry.
Where the final phase of this work lies in the sequence of output of unknown bellfoundries, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NB.

   This page was built from the database on  4-Nov-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2022/01/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2021/08/30