Antoine Labelle—A Priest in Too Tight a Cassock Antoine Labelle, the man and his legacy Société d'histoire de la Rivière-du-Nord
This Assomption arrowhead sash, woven from wool, is said to have belonged to Curé Labelle and was kept by his friend Jules-Édouard Prévost and his descendants. It was […]
This statue was carved by sculptor Olindo Gratton, a native of Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec, not long after the death of Antoine Labelle. It depicts the “colonizing priest.” In his […]
A man and his children pose proudly beside the monument to Curé Labelle not long after its dedication in the centre of Parc Labelle. It took four committees […]
Similar prizes were offered at each of the draws in Curé Labelle’s colonization lottery. The smaller prizes tended to vary from one draw to the next. For the […]
This sculpture commemorating Curé Labelle’s grande corvée du bois, or wood convoy, was designed in 2016 as part of the celebrations of the 125th anniversary of Labelle’s death. […]