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- Born on December 14, 1810 in
Saint-Joseph-de-Lévis, QC
- Son of Jean-Baptiste Thibault and
Charlotte Carrier
- Deceased on April 4, 1879 at
Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, QC
- Ordained priest on September 8,
1833 by Mgr Joseph-Norbert Provencher
- From 1842 Fr. Thibault made
several trips in the Prairies to the Rocky Mountains during ten years
visiting First Nations and Métis inhabitants
- Fr. Thibault celebrated the first
mass in the Coteau des Chênes region in 1847
- After fire destroyed the second
St Boniface cathedral in 1860, Fr. Thibault spent the winter of 1861 -
1862, making lumber on Prosper Nault’s property; this lumber
was used for construction of a new cathedral.
- In 1869 Mgr. Hector Louis
Langevin asks him to go to the Red River in the role of negotiator with
Louis Riel and the Métis
- By a decree of Mgr.
Taché, he becomes vicar general of the diocese of Boniface
Saint in 1871 and served the parish of St François Xavier
- Until 1898, Thibaultville was
known by people of the area under the name of Coteau des
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