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| Welcome to the Community of Collette | |
Collete,
just like Rogersville owes it’s development to the construction
of the intercolonial railway. The first people to established came
in Collette in 1875. The name “Collette” comes from
the first settler, Hoséa Collette. The first settlers came
from Prince Edward Island, Saint-Alexis de Matapédia or from
the Richibucto Area. The following families were the first ones
to settle: Pitre, Richard, Maillet, DesRoches, Daigle, Cormier and
Doucette. Other families came afterwards. |
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The
history of this parish is closely related to the Rogersville parish
because of the work of Mgr. Marcel François Richard. He was the
priest of the Rogersville parish when in 1914; he decided to build
a church north of Rogersville in the Collette tier. This parish
was his fourteenth that he built in the deep forest of Kent and
Northumberland counties. |
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On
September 20th 1914, the people of Collette gathered up in their
new church named under Saint-Jean-Baptiste for their first mass.
The land where the church was built was given by Joseph Richard.
The priests of Rogersville went to Collette to say mass, also the
Trappistes fathers would also give a help. |
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In
1954, thunder and lightning hit the Collette Church and did considerable
dammage. Under the reigns of Father Émile Gallant of Rogersville,
the church was rebuilt and a sanctuary and a basement built. The
Architects of this project were Bélanger and Roy of Moncton and
the foreman was Calixte Richard. A rectory was built at the same
time. |
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