Pioneers, Ploughs, and Politics: New Brunswick Planned Settlements

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Portrait of His Excellency Mgr. P.-A. Chiasson, Bishop of Chatham. – [19-]. – 1 photograph : b&w ; 13.5 x 10 cm. Photographer unknown. Patrice-Alexandre Chiasson (1867-1942), the son of Oliva Chiasson and Angèle Haché, was born in Grand-Étang, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Ordained to the priesthood in Renes, France on 8 June 1898, he was appointed Bishop of Chatham, New Brunswick on 9 September 1920. In 1938 he became Bishop of Bathurst, when the name of the diocese was changed. A social activist, Bishop Chiasson was instrumental in establishing le Sanatorium Notre-Dame de Lourdes and l’Hôtel-Dieu de Saint-Joseph, and he organized le Comité des Prêtres Colonisateurs du Diocèse de Chatham to encourage the back-to-the-land movement. He, along with Father Livain Chiasson, the Pastor of Shippagan, and members of the laity, actively promoted the cooperative movement in northern New Brunswick, which grew rapidly in the 1930s and 1940s. P485-74b Bathurst College collection, PANB.


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