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AlexandreAntonin Tach, O.M.I., was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary of the Oblate order, author and the first Archbishop of Saint Boniface in Manitoba, Canada.

He was born in RivireduLoup, in the Province of Lower Canada , onJuly 1823, the son of Charles Tach, a merchant, and LouiseHenriette de Labroquerie, a descendent of the famed explorers Louis Jolliet and Gaultier de Varennes. When his father died in January 1826, the Widow Tach was forced to return to her family home in Boucherville. The young Alexandre was raised there under the care of his uncle, in a home where the arts, study and the Catholic faith were part of the daily fabric of life.

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