Well, I was just going by the article saying the building did not have two steeples until 1876. Also by https://www.langdonroad.com/fo-to-fy having the earliest public reference to French, J. A. being 1874. I guess the article could be wrong and maybe there are earlier references to be discovered. But those are two clues pointing to the mid-1870s as the earliest.
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