St. Boniface

St. Boniface is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba · St. Boniface City Hall, 219 Provencher Boulevard, St. Boniface, Winnipeg · location approximate

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In 1817 Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiére and his wife Marie-Anne Gaboury settled on Seine River lots granted them by Lord Selkirk. They arrived in 1806, the first white couple to settle in the northwest. They became the grandparents of Louis Riel. Near them the same year settled the De Meurons troops Selkirk had brought from Montreal to oppose the North West Company forces. In 1818-19 Fathers Provencher and Dumoulin established here the first permanent school and mission in the west. Such were the beginnings of St. Boniface, soon to become the centre of French-Canadian life in Western Canada.

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En 1817, Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière et sa femme, Marie-Anne Gaboury, s'établirent sur des lots de la Rivière Seine que Lord Selkirk leur avait concédés. Arrivés ici en 1806, le premier couple de race blanche à habiter en permanence dans le Nord-Ouest, ils devinrent les grands-parents de Louis Riel. La même année, les Meurons, ces soldats que Lord Selkirk avait fait venir de Montréal, pour s'opposer aux forces de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest, s'établirent auprès d'eux. En 1818-19, les abbés Provencher et Dumoulin fondèrent ici la première école permanente et la première mission de l'Ouest. Tels furent les débuts de Saint-Boniface qui devait bientôt devenir le centre de la vie canadienne-française dans l'Ouest canadien.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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