2018-11-25 - Upon church union in 1926, the congregation merged with St. John's Methodist Church to become St. James and St. John United Church; the church is in Newcastle, which became part of Miramichi in 1995; organ rebuilt by Casavant in 1955. -Database Manager
2019-02-02 - Updated by René Le Grand, listing this web site as a source of information: https://marconf.ca/45268-history-of-newcastle-pastoral-charge/. <br> <br>The changes I propose seem to me to respect the situation in 1919.<br>Apparently the CASAVANT stoplist usually do such shortcut, but I think it to be historically detrimental.<br>The readers will not lose anything because the NOTES reconstruct the life span.<br>The organ was given to the church in 1919 by Lord Beaverbrook in memory of his father, the Rev. William Aitken. A new building was opened in 1963. -Database Manager
2019-02-02 - Updated by René Le Grand <br> <br>The opus 806 was a gift of lord Beaverbrook, William Maxwell \"Max\" Aitken, in memory of his father. The organ is located on a platform posed on the stage facing the assembly, at a distance of about three meters of a basket handle like arch.<br>(https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/image-image.aspx?id=8372#i3)<br>(...) organ rebuilt by Casavant in 1955 as opus 2288. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist courtesy of the Casavant Freres Archives Date not recorded
Newcastle (Miramichi), New Brunswick
St. James & St. John United Church
Casavant Op. 806 1919 2/22
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GREAT SWELL PEDAL
8' Open Diapason 65 16' Bourdon 65 16' Open Diapason 30
8' Doppel Flute 65 8' Open Diapason 65 16' Bourdon 30
8' Dulciana 65 8' Stopped Diapason 65 16' Gedeckt SW
4' Principal 65 8' Viola di Gamba 65 8' Stopped Flute 12
4' Harmonic Flute 65 8' Voix Celeste 53
2' Fifteenth 61 8' Aeoline 65
8' Trumpet 65 4' Traverse Flute 65
Super 2' Piccolo 61
III Dolce Cornet 195
8' Oboe 65
8' Vox Humana 65
Tremolo
Sub
Super
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