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Antoine d’Éschambault
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Cleric, historian.
Born at St-Lazare on 21 May 1896, son of Venance d’Éschambault (1867-1951) and Berthe Simard (1876-1922), he was educated at St. Boniface College and Laval University, and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1921. He studied for three years at the Vatican and Poland then served as Secretary to the Archbishop of St. Boniface (1924-1934) and Chancellor of the Archdiocese (1934-1949).
An active historian, d’Éschambault was for many years President of the St. Boniface Historical Society, was the Manitoba representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (1937-1959), and served on the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba (1946-1958). He published several books including Eugenical Sterilization (1936), Essais historique (1961), and Petite Histoire du voyageur (1971).
He died at Winnipeg on 18 May 1960 and was buried the St. Boniface Cathedral Cemetery.
Marriage registration [Venance Deschambault, Bertha Simard], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Antoine Henri Felix Deschambault], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Death registrations [Bertha Deschambault, Venance Deschambault], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Ville Cathedral de Saint Boniface: The Cathedral City, promotional pamphlet, c1958.
“Msgr. d’Eschambault, scholar, dies at 63,” Winnipeg Tribune, 19 May 1960. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B12, page 17]
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
We thank Anthony Wlock and Father Carl Tarnopolski for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 22 October 2025
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