Camille Lefebvre (14 February 1831 – 28 January 1895) was a
Holy CrossThe Congregation of Holy Cross or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests and brothers founded in 1837 by Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC, in Le Mans, France....
father and vicar general for the Acadians.
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Camille Lefebvre (14 February 1831 – 28 January 1895) was a
Holy CrossThe Congregation of Holy Cross or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests and brothers founded in 1837 by Blessed Father Basil Anthony-Marie Moreau, CSC, in Le Mans, France....
father and vicar general for the Acadians.
Camille Lefebvre went in 1864, along with Bishop Sweeney, to New Brunswick intending to provide education to the Catholic population who were Freench speaking. This group was predominantly made up of the
AcadianThe Acadians are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French colonists who settled in Acadia...
population.
He originally was a primary school teacher before being ordained a priest in 1852.