Camille Lefebvre
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Camille Lefebvre was a Holy Cross
Congregation of Holy Cross
The Congregation of Holy Cross or Congregatio a Sancta Cruce is a 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 Acadian
Acadian
The Acadians are the descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia . Acadia was a colony of New France...

population.

He originally was a primary school teacher before being ordained a priest in 1852.
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