====== Proulx, Jean-Baptiste ====== 
 (7 Jan. 1846-1 March 1904), clergyman. Born at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1869. An active career followed as priest, teacher, university administrator, and author. He was the author of //L’enfant perdu et retrouvé ou Pierre Cholet// (Montreal, 1887), which is based on the real-life story of a man from St-Polycarpe, Que., who in later life had GC associations: see [[cholet_pierre|Pierre Cholet]] in the present dictionary. Fr Proulx acted as an agent of Prime Minister Laurier in the settlement of the Manitoba Schools question. He died in Ottawa.


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<fs small>Biography (with much detail) by Gilles Dorion, //Dictionary of Canadian Biography//, XIII, 850-852 * //Bibliography of Glengarry// 17 * Hurtig, I, 413
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