Camille Lefebvre
Born in Saint Philippe-de-Laprairie, Lower Canada, he was an itinerant primary school teacher before beginning religious studies in 1852, at the Congregation of Holy Cross at Saint-Laurent near Montreal. He was ordained a priest on 29 July 1855 at age 24. First appointed as assistant priest in the rural parish of Saint-Eustache, he afterwards taught at a business college in Saint-Aimé (Massueville) in the diocese of Saint-Hyacinthe.
In 1863, Bishop John Sweeny of New Brunswick recognized a need to provide education to the French speaking Catholic population the Maritime colonies, as well as English-speaking Catholics of Irish and Scottish descent.[2]
Under Sweeny's mandate, in the fall of 1864 Father Lefebvre founded
Father Lefebvre died on 28 January 1895.
His life and work are commemorated at Monument Lefebvre where the college was founded, and where he died.
His biographer was Pascal Poirier.[2]
References
- ^ "Lefebvre, Camille". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto & Université Laval. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online". Biographi.ca. October 18, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
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