(13 July 1913-19 Oct. 1980), clergyman and teacher. Born in Montreal. Parents: Arthur Brazeau and his wife Marie-Jeanne Chénier. Fernand Brazeau was raised by his uncle Homer Chénier (19 Aug. 1879-4 May 1928), a general merchant c. 1908-1928 at North Lancaster, GC, and his wife, whose maiden name was Bernadette Rozon. He was not adopted legally by the Chéniers, but he was considered, by them and by himself, as being in effect their son. Mrs Chénier was the sister of the Rev. Sister Rose-Anna Rozon, who thereby became his adoptive aunt. He attended school at North Lancaster, Collège Bourget (Rigaud), and the Scolasticat St-Charles of Joliette, Que. At the University of Toronto, he took a course in education. At Harvard, where he studied 1946-1948, he obtained a Master of Arts degree in mathematics. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1940, as one of the Clerics of St. Viateur, or Viatorian Fathers. He taught at Collège Bourget and Collège de Cornwall, and was the pastor from 1977 of the parish of Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Crysler, Ont. He died at Crysler.
P. Jean Primeau, c.s.v., Père Fernand Brazeau Clerc de Saint-Viateur (1913-1980) (19 pp.,1991), includes portrait * 1882-1982: St. Margaret of Scotland Parish Paroisse Ste-Marguerite d’Ecosse: Glen Nevis, Ontario (1982?), unpaginated: portrait, biog. note * Villenueve 36, 104-106, 233 * obituary of Homer Chénier, CS 17 May 1928 * obituary of Mrs Chénier’s mother, Standard Freeholder 17 May 1943