St. Vital church bell tolls for the last time
Even though St. Vital’s bronze bell has been sentenced to a lifetime of silence, it has also been offered an opportunity to become immortalized as a part of local history.
In the tower overlooking the banks of the North Saskatchewan River, the bell sounded its last toll on July 5. Members of the Battleford community then dismantled the bell from the church in hopes to save it as a memento to be displayed as part of a historical feature.
Bernadette Leslie, director of the Battleford Fred Light Museum spoke to battlefordsNOW about the upcoming exhibit in which the St. Vital bell is to become one of the main showpieces.
She said the bell will be put on display at the local museum along with two other church bells – that of the St. George’s Anglican Church and the Gardiner Presbyterian Church.