2017-05-07 - Identified through information in Casavant documents, courtesy of Simon Couture and Denis Blaine. The tonal director was Stephen Stoot. The cost was $3,100.00. -Database Manager
2019-07-31 - R.F. Howard and Thomas Wilfred “Mac” McBride went into funeral service together in 1921, and began operating from a building at 10535 Jasper Avenue. In 1927 they purchased a vacant lot on the east side of 109th Street, just south of Jasper Avenue, and set about building a new funeral parlour. They commissioned renowned Edmonton architects George Heath MacDonald and Herbert Magoon to design one of the finest funeral facilities in Western Canada. Inspired by Spanish architecture, the new building was clad with stone, roofed with clay tiles and appointed with the finest interior finishings. When it opened in July 1929, it boasted an air-conditioned 135-seat chapel with Edmonton’s first Casavant pipe organ and four slumber rooms “where relatives may view their departed ones.” Over the next 59 years, the Howard & McBride Funeral Home was a place of goodbyes for thousands of Edmontonians. The final farewells came in 1988, when the business was sold to become part of Roy and Owen’s Chapel of Chimes. Between 1988 and 2009, the former funeral home functioned as various restaurants and nightclubs. It was demolished in November 2009. Mac McBride was active into his twilight years, and still drove in occasional funeral processions until he was 90. McBride died in 1980 at the ripe old age of 92. The organ was relocated St. Matthew Anglican Church, St. Albert, Alberta, in 1996. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives Date not recorded
Edmonton, Alberta
Howard & McBride Funeral Home
Casavant Op. 1464 1932 2/3
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GREAT SWELL PEDAL
16' Dbl Dulciana tc 16' Contra Gamba tc 16' Bourdon 12
8' Salicional 73 8' Salicional 8' Stopped Flute
8' Gedeckt 85 8' Gedeckt 8' Cello
8' Dulciana 89 8' Dulciana 8' Principal *
4' Flute 4' Flute 4' Octave Flute
4' Violina 4' Violina 4' Superoctave *
4' Dulcet 2 2/3' Twelfth 2' Twentysecond *
2' Piccolo 2' Piccolo
1 3/5' Tierce * from Gedeckt
Tremulant
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