(2 Dec. 1903-11 March 1962), clergyman. (E. Legault) Parents: Mr and Mrs Napoleon Legault. He studied 1919-1925 at St. Alexander’s College, of Ironsides, Que., now a part of Hull. In the early summer of 1925, he was on holiday at his home in the 2nd Concession of Lochiel Township, before leaving for France to continue the study of theology as a member of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. (Glengarry News 3 July 1925) After study at Chevilly, France, he was ordained to the priesthood at Chevilly on 28 Oct. 1928. The next year he arrived back home from France at the end of July, and on 4 Aug. at the Sacred Heart Church, Alexandria, he sang his first Solemn High Mass in Canada. (Glengarry News 2 & 9 Aug. 1929) He was assigned, probably in 1929, to Mauritius and was afterwards a pastor from 1934 on the island of Rodriguez, a dependency of Mauritius. Rodriguez was administered by Britain but was largely French-speaking. In 1937, when he revisited Alexandria to attend his parents’ golden wedding anniversary, he was said to have been the first French-Canadian pastor on the island. (Standard Freeholder 5 May 1937) After further service in Rodriquez, he returned to Mauritius for other pastoral duties there. From 1947 to 1951, he also served as a military chaplain, at least a part of his service being in the Middle East. He returned to Canada for a vacation, perhaps about 1956, but on account of illness was unable to return to Mauritius. He died in Montreal, a few weeks after being hospitalized for cancer. For another priest of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, see Leo Leblanc.
Henry J. Koren, A Spiritan Who Was Who in North America and Trinidad 1732-1981 (Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press, 1983) 267 * at St. Alexander’s College, Glengarry News 5 Sept. 1919, 11 Jan. 1924