Seniors advocate troubled over proposed future of Nisbet Church
In 1872, Reverend James Nisbet set up a missionary in the heart of the prairies and named it after Queen Victoria’s deceased husband, Prince Albert. The man built the Nisbet Church and used it as the first church and schoolhouse for the area.
The 145-year-old building has deteriorated and now the future of the heritage structure in Kinsmen Park is up for debate during 2018 budget deliberations. Proposed is a move to gradually takedown and store historically valuable pieces of the building, but this is not sitting well among one local advocacy group.
The Prince Albert Seniors Advocacy Group, headed by Dr. John Fryters, believed not enough has been done to preserve the structure and called the scheme “kind of shortsighted.”
“The church is one of the last links to the past,” Fryters said. “The city was started by Reverend Nisbet and that was his church. Many of the things that happened with the settlers were centred around that church.”