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With his father, Brousseau cultivated the land owned by the parish church and developed a model farm. He gave lectures on agricultural, and contributed to the establishment of an aqueduct, a butter factory and a sawmill. In 1899, the
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To this end, in 1902 Brousseau founded the
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Brousseau envisioned a system whereby upon reaching the age of twelve, the boys cared for in the orphanages run by the sisters would move on to an agricultural training facility, and the girls would learn various domestic skills. Upon graduating, it was expected that the boys could apply for an
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In order to counter the exodus of French-Canadian settlers to the industrialized regions of the United States, projects were developed by the
Colonization Society of the Diocese of Quebec. Brousseau saw this as a method to support the French-Canadian Catholic culture in Quebec, and joined the
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