Durocher, Flavien (1800-1876), missionary, was born at St. Antoine, Lower Canada, on September 6, 1800; and he died at St. Sauveur, Quebec, on December 7, 1876. He joined the Oblate order, and was for many years a missionary on the north shore of the St. Lawrence and on the Saguenay. See A. N. Valiquet, Biographie du révérend Père Flavien Durocher, O.M.I. (Quebec, 1911).

Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 254.