Collection CDA BO-96 - Jean-François Chambon, S.J. Collection

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Jean-François Chambon, S.J. Collection

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CDA BO-96

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  • 1884-189? (Creation)
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    Chambon, Jean-François

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0.1 cm of textual records

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(1831-1902)

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Jean-François Chambon, S.J. was born in St-Didier, France, on December 19, 1831. He entered the Society of Jesus at Sault-au-Récollet in Montreal on August 30, 1867, after having been ordained a priest ten years earlier to serve his own diocese of Puy followed by eight years of volunteer work at Florida missions.

Soon after joining the Jesuits, Father Chambon began a ten-year prison and hospital chaplaincy in New York. In 1880, he embarked on a twenty-year pastoral career in Northern Ontario, beginning at the Holy Cross Mission in Wikwemikong, then proceeding to the Fort William Mission. From 1882 to 1895, Father Chambon had his base at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Besides occasional interruptions due to illness, he spent the years 1895 to 1902 carrying out short missions at Wikwemikong, Massey, Garden River, and Fort William. He retired to Sault-au-Récollet and died there in 1902.

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The collection contains original correspondence written by Jean-François Chambon, S.J. in the 1890s, as well as an 1884 typed account of Father Chambon’s time at Garden River addressed to the Superior. The collection also includes lumber receipts and other lists of materials, as well as photocopies of biographical material pertaining to Father Chambon.

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BO-0096

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  • English
  • French

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    Kate Moore, Project Archivist

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    2022-02-25

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        Fay, Terence J. “Chambon, Jean-François.” In Dictionary of Jesuit Biography: Ministry to English Canada, 1842-1987. Toronto, Ontario: Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies, 1991.

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