MONTREAL - NDA : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Église Notre Dame d'Anjou
   Place de l'Église at avenue Chénier
   Anjou,
     Montréal, Québec, Canada
   LL: N 45.60181, W 73.54339
Site locator map
*Former Location (1914-67):
   River Ridge Farm
   (estate of Hon. J.C.Sibley)
   Franklin,
     Venango County, Pennsylvania, USA
Locator map
*Player:
   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Paroisse Notre Dame d'Anjou
   8200, place de l'Eglise
   Montréal, QC  H1K 2B3
   T: 514-353-5560   F: 514-351-5618

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Farm sold in 1948 to White Fathers;
   chime sold in 1967 to this recently-
   built church; empty stone campanile
   remains on former farm.
   Now hung with 6 largest as a
   swinging peal, other 5 as a chime.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument with action described in Remarks above of 11 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1967
     with bells made by Meneely/Troy in 1914
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2012
*Links:

A local churches page has a photo of the building.

Photos of the present and former towers.  Click "whole instrument" in the first paragraph of text to see historic photos from when the bells were in the farm tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Meneely (Troy) bellfoundry.

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 QU.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  9-Feb-24
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/02/09
   and on technical data last updated on 2013/08/22
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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