The following excerpts start with the decision to purchase property and include relevant pages from the PDF format of the book without editing (see links below for the official online version of the book). Vanier School use to be called Thibault school and was part of the Thibault school division.
The September 1891 "detachment" comprised twenty-one adults
and seven children among whom was Father Amedee Harnois who
would become Morinville's first parish priest. He would serve for
one year. As of October 24, he was at his future parish, "Saint-
Jean-Baptiste"; he filed for a homestead two miles west of presentday
Morinville and had a house built which would also serve as
a chapel. Father Lestanc, o.m.i., blessed it on December 20, and
on behalf of Bishop Grandin, officially named Father Harnois as
pastor.
All of the parish was gathered,very happy and edified by the ceremony which
was followed by a meal,offered by one of the parishioners to the two priests
and to many people of the area.20
In late 1891,the pioneers built a chapel-house for the priest,on his own land,two miles west of the village.3 The chapel wasblessed on December twentieth.Father Harnois was officially in-stalled as parish priest by Father Lestanc,o.m.L,Superior of theSt.Albert Mission.The first baptism was celebrated on January10,1892,for Jean-Baptiste Perron,born the previous evening,fromthe legitimate marriage of Celestin Perron,farmer,and MelanieSaint-Germain.The first marriage was celebrated on May 2,1892, between Joseph Houle,son of Norbert Houle and of Theotiste Joly,and Exilda Rondeau,daughter of Israel Rondeau and Sara Lar-ance.The first burial in Morinville was that of Marie Dubuc,bornMarch 11,1892,with interment on the fourteenth.
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