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Manitoba as a sister province of Quebec, and promoted French Canadian immigration and the linguistic and educational rights of French-speaking Catholics in the Northwest. Taché was involved in the controversy surrounding the suppression of French as an official language and the
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The following years saw Taché serving a widespread region of which about half of the population were
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American population of the west. Upon completion of his novitiate in 1845, even though he was still only a
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abolition of confessional schools in
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