Cleric.
Born in the RM of Montcalm on 25 May 1893, son of Narcisse Moquin (1842-1925) and Sophronie Gosselin (1853-1920), he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1921, by Arthur Beliveau. He served as assistant pastor at Our Lady of Assumption Roman Catholic Church at Mariapolis (1921-1922) then pastor at Ste. Genevieve Roman Catholic Church (1922-1929), Our Lady of Assumption Roman Catholic Church (1929-1955), and Somerset (1955-1966) before retiring to St. Boniface in 1966. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 9 March 1971 and was buried in the St. Boniface Cemetery.
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 11 March 1971.
Echoes of Our Heritage: Mariapolis and District, 1891-1991 by Mariapolis History Book Committee, 1991, page 114.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 15 January 2023
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