BEAUPRÉ : CANADA - QU

*Location:

   Basilique Saint-Anne-de-Beaupré 
   (Basilica of Saint Anne) 
   avenue Royale & avenue Régina 
   Beaupré, Québec, Canada

*Player:

  (unknown)

*Contact:

   Basilique Saint-Anne-de-Beaupré 
   10018, avenue Royale 
   Saint-Anne-de-Beaupré, QC  G0A 3C0 
   T: (418)827-3781   F: (418)827-8771

*Schedule:

  (unknown)

*Remarks:

   F-natural in place of F-sharp; 
   six smallest bells installed 1946, and 
   dedicated by Cardinal Cushing, Boston,
   Mass.  Three heaviest in north tower;
   others in south tower with an 1885 bell
   (by Whitechapel) which survived the 
   great fire of 1922.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection of  9 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the bass octave
   Transposition is nil (concert pitch)
   Keyboard range:     G A   /    NONE  
   There are no added semitones
   There is no practice console
   The whole instrument was installed in 1958
     with bells made by Paccard     
   Year of latest technical information source is 2005

*Links:

The Basilica's Website, available in both English and French versions, has a photo of the building and its twin spired towers (north on left). The Layout page shows both the location and the plan of the property.

A description of building, bells and organs (English in bottom half of page); click on the picture of the organ to see pictures of the church exterior and interior.

A tourist's page has more photos of the building.

There is no locator map yet.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Paccard bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in QU.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 31-Oct-05
   based on textual data last updated on 2005/10/13
   and on technical data last updated on 2005/10/07

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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