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Leblanc, Leo

(1 March 1917-15 July 1991), clergyman. He appears to have been a native of the Dalkeith-Glen Robertson area. His ordination to the priesthood was in 1945. In that year, it was stated that he would soon leave for the African mission fields of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. (Glengarry News 29 June 1945) He left again In early 1950 for the African mission fields, after spending Christmas week in the Alexandria and Glen Robertson area. (GN 13 Jan. 1950) The Glen Robertson columnist in the Glengarry News of 6 Jan. 1955 wrote, “Father Leo Leblanc, a native son of St. Martin of Tours parish, has made frequent visits to the Glen since his return from missionary work in Africa, to be with his many relatives here.” He was the director, in 1955, of the Sacred Heart Mission, Kabba, Nigeria. In 1968, he was an assistant at the Roman Catholic mission, Okene, Nigeria. He died at Longueuil, Que. For another priest of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, see E. Legault.


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