This was the first church built at Saint-Bernard, blessed in 1853 by Monseigneur Walsh, Archbishop of Halifax. This church served the parish until the blessing of the new church in 1942, at which point it was torn down. A commemorative monument and the cemetery remains.

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                                                                                                                                                                                          The second and current church at Saint-Bernard took thirty years to build (1912 to 1942).

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