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L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia
Léger Jean-Baptiste Noël Veyssière
Veyssière, Léger Jean Baptiste Noël (d. 1800), clergyman, was a Recollet priest who, in 1769, abjured the Roman Catholic faith, and became Protestant minister at Three Rivers, Quebec. He remained in this charge until his death, at Three Rivers, on May 26, 1800 . See J. E. Roy, Les premiers pasteurs Protestants au Canada (Bull. rech. hist., 1897). [Consult Veyssière's biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.] Source: W. Stewart Wallace, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. VI, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 398p., p. 237. |
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