Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix Parish / Moncton
Established before 1900
First school-chapel 1948
First Pastor 1947
In 1900 there were only 40 families in the Humphrey area. People went to Moncton for their religious services.
In 1947, Msgr. Norbert Robichaud separated a part of St-Louis-de-France Parish in Lewisville, and founded in Humphrey, at the North-East of the town, a new parish dedicated to Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours. This parish was confided to the Redemptorist Fathers. It comprised around one hundred families.
In 1948 was built the school-chapel Notre-Dame where Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur nuns taught school. It was used as a place of worship until 1955. At that date, the parish moved to the basement of the new seminary built by the Redemptorist Fathers on Elmwood Street. This new location was used up to 1972.
In 1953, Sunny Brae will in turn detach itself from the Lewisville Parish and will become the Mission Stella-Maris.
In 1972 both the parish Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours and the Mission Stella-Maris are fused to become the new parish Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix. The current church was built in 1973. The English Catholic Parish of St. Michael shared the same quarters up until the construction of its church in 1982.
Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix Parish will expand rapidly with the demographical development of that area of Moncton.
The parish built the Père-Patrice-Leblanc Community Centre in 1995. An addition in 2000 doubled the size of the Centre and the kitchen area was expanded in 2009.