St. Peter's Church, Chéticamp, Nova Scotia

Built in 1893, St. Peter's Church (also known as Paroisse Saint-Pierre), located in the picturesque village of Chéticamp, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, is a fine example of French-Canadian Neo-classical church architecture. With its tall silver spire and steeply pitched roof, it resembles many other Catholic churches built along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, and is valued as one of only a few stone churches on Cape Breton Island and as one of the finest examples of a style of church architecture developed in Quebec which is rarely seen outside that province. According to my mom's own trip diary, my family attended Mass at St. Peter's on our summer road trip to Nova Scotia in 1973.