Remembering Chapel Hill
Written By: Therese MacAdam

Do you spell chapel with two p’s or one? It is debatable but spell check says one. You decide. The Chapel Hill area of Glace Bay stretches from the tracks (or where the tracks used to be at McKeen) all the way up to Phalen’s road. Traditionally called “Snob” hill by the locals, and was named Chapel Hill because it was the location of St. Ann’s Church also known as the Chapel on the Hill in and around the 1800’s and there is still a graveyard on King Edward Street up past the Church. There also used to be a building supply dealer named Chappel’s down at the bottom of the hill and some people say that is how Chapel/Chappel Hill was named.

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