Modeste Demers (11 October 1809 – 28 July 1871) was a Roman Catholic Bishop and missionary in the Oregon Country. A native of Quebec, he traveled overland...
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Louis-Philippe Demers (1922–1996), honorable pharmacist from the Quebec region Modeste Demers (1809–1871), Canadian bishop Nicole Demers (1950–2023), Canadian...
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of a year. At low water the drop was about 20 feet (6.1 m). In 1839, Modeste Demers investigated the area in some detail and described not just one fall...
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he was killed by an angry ex-employee. In Victoria in 1856, Bishop Modeste Demers imported a hand press intending to publish religious materials. It remained...
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occupy the Upper Cowlitz River Basin by conquest and intermarriage. Modeste Demers reported that the Cowlitz peoples were fluent in Chinook Jargon. The...
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1810) March 11 – John Heckman, political figure (b.1785) July 28 – Modeste Demers, missionary (b.1809) September 23 – Louis-Joseph Papineau, lawyer, politician...
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crypt, where three of Victoria's former Bishops are interred: Bishop Modeste Demers, the first Bishop of Victoria. Charles John Seghers, the second and...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018. Blanchet, François Norbert; Demers, Modeste Demers; Bolduc, Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie; Langlois, Antoine (1956), Landerholm...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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name Modeste include: André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813), French composer Modeste Demers (1809–1871), Canadian Christian missionary Modeste M'bami...
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region began with the advent of Fathers François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers along the Columbia in 1838). Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, assigned from...
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François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers were sent to the area and arrived at Fort Vancouver in 1838. Blanchet and Demers held Masses in various buildings...
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regional Indigenous and Catholic settlers. François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers arrived at Fort Nez Percés on 18 November 1839. This began a long-lasting...
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appointed the Vicar General of the Oregon Country, with fellow priest Modeste Demers to aid in the missionary efforts. The missionaries were instructed by...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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1838, he sent the missionary priests François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers, who had been instructed by Archbishop Joseph Signay of Quebec: "In...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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with missionaries, such as Father Francis Norbert Blanchet and Father Modeste Demers, coming from Quebec in 1837 and a later group of missionaries following...
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sent. Eventually Provencher selected François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers as capable for traveling to the distant Willamette Valley. In correspondence...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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1866) July 25 – Jonathan McCully, politician (d.1877) October 11 – Modeste Demers, missionary (d.1871) November 15 – Charles La Rocque, priest and third...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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The following spring De Smet visited François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers, missionaries at Fort Vancouver. He noted that the Protestant proselytizing...
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missionary priests Reverend François Norbert Blanchet and Reverend Modeste Demers to Fort Vancouver in Washington. In 1843, the Vatican established the...
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Bilodeau, actor (born 1990) Sébastien Bordeleau, hockey player (born 1975) Modeste Demers, Canadian missionary and first Bishop of Vancouver Island (1809-1871)...
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bishops (Augustin-Magloire Blanchet of Walla Walla, Washington and Modeste Demers of Vancouver Island) to send Oblate missionaries from France to serve...
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crossing of the Rocky Mountains accompanied by two Catholic clergymen: Modeste Demers, and François Norbert Blanchet. On 22 October, a major incident occurred...
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Norbert Blanchet Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc Pierre-Jean De Smet Modeste Demers Antoine Langlois John Nobili Nicholas Point Antonio Ravalli Louis Vercruyesse...
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holiday. In 1838, two Catholic priests, François Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers, arrived in the Oregon Country to establish the work of the Catholic...
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