DCHP-3

fabrique

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

in French Canada, a local parish body responsible for the maintenance and management of church property; vestry.

Quotations

1767
Consequently, it belongs to the Managers of the Fabrick Lands, and not to any other Persons, to repair the said wall.
1836
Remember how the Fabrique question was treated by the Tory party.
1887
The old institution of the fabrique—which still exists in all its vigour—enabled them to meet together whenever it was necessary to repair a church or presbytery.
1963
The only kind of local government left [1830's] was the ecclesiastical fabrique, the parish vestry charged with the upkeep of the church edifice.