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292: Lettres de Monseigneur Joseph-Norrert [sic] Provencher, premier evêque de Saint-Boniface . 1913.
Provencher, Joseph Norbert (1787-1853.)
1787-1853. Founder of Catholicism in the West; arrived at Red River with Father Dumoulin, 1818; named titular Bishop of Juliopolos and coadjutor of the Bishop of Quebec for the Northwest, 1820; vicar apostolic for the Northwest, 1844; Bishop of the Northwest, 1847; Bishop of Saint-Boniface, 1852 (Morice, Histoire de l'église catholique).