2015-07-06 - Cathedral exterior (Photograph by Jean Gagnon, via Wikimedia Commons, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2010-01-12 - Identified by Riley Wes Mitchell from information furnished by Casavant Frères, courtesy of Simon Couture. -Database Manager
2015-08-08 - Updated through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Lawrence Phelps. -Database Manager
2020-01-03 - The cathedral burned March 30, 1929; because to a lack of funds due to the Great Depression, a replacement cathedral wasn't completed until 1969 and only a crypt church was built and masses were held in the crypt church until that time; Op. 1574 was installed behind a pipe fence on the front wall to the left of the altar of the crypt church; the new cathedral, renamed Cathedrale du Christ-Roi, didn't receive another pipe organ until a monastery donated Casavant Op. 2894 (1966) in 1993. -Database Manager
2021-03-03 - In 1993 the organ was donated by the nuns at the Augustine Monastery in Havre-de-Gaspé to the Cathédrale-du-Christ-Roi, Gaspé; it was moved by Casavant, where it was installed in a corner at the rear of the room; a 16' Doucaine was added to the Pedale in 1994. The cathedral is the only wooden cathedral in North America. -Jeff Scofield
Source: Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
Cathédrale du Christ-Roi
Gaspé, Québec
Casavant Op. 2894 1966/1993 2/14
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GRAND ORGUE POSITIF
8' Flûte à cheminée 56 8' Bourdon 56
4' Prestant 56 4' Flûte à fuseau 56
2' Flûte à bec 56 2' Gemshorn 56
III Fourniture 168 1 1/3' Quinte 56
Tremblant
PEDALE
16' Soubasse 32
8' Flûte ouverte 32
4' Choralbass 32
16' Douçaine L/2 32 (1994)
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