On%C3%A9sime Dorval
Onsime Dorval was the first certified teacher in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was a talented painter and innovative woodworker, and became the best known and most respected Frenchlanguage teacher in settlements throughout the northern plains of Saskatchewan.
Dorval was born to a Mtis family in SainteScholastique, in the Laurentians of the Province of Canada, onAugust 1845. Her mother Esther Brunette and her carpenter father Ignace Dorval lived on a farm and moved to SaintJrme when she was four years old. The petite girl was frail and in poor health throughout her childhood.
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