12 January 1915: DOB. St. Francois de Madarvaska, N.B. (Diocese of Edmunston, New Brunswick)
studies at Bathurst College, New Brunswick; Bourget College of Rigaud, Quebec; St. Joseph College in Memramcook, N.B.; and Holy Heart Seminary in Halifax, Nova Scotia
07 May 1944: Ordained for the Diocese of Edmunston, N.B.
26 August 1964: consecrated bishop at Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Edmunston as auxiliary bishop to Bishop Brodeur, Diocese of Alexandria, Ontario
Pastor at Sacre Coeur, Alexandria while serving as Auxiliary Bishop
Spent two years (1964-66) in the Diocese of Alexandria as auxiliary bishop
12 January 1967: appointed Archbishop of Archdiocese of Ottawa
Due to Bishop Brodeur’s ill health administered the Diocese of Alexandria from Ottawa until June 1967 when Bishop Brodeur’s successor, Bishop Adolphe Proulx was installed
1967-1969: Vice-President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB)
Knight of Malta
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
1969-1971: President CCCB
Knight of Malta
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
One of “The Gang of Five” an influential group of five bishops who were close friends and annually met on Labour day weekends at each other’s cottages. The group comprised of Bishops Plourde, Philip Pocock, George Flahiff and brothers Emmett and Alexander Carter,
Vice President and a founding member of the Ontario Conference of Catholic Bishops
1989: retired.
Officer of the Order of Canada
05 January 2013: died in Ottawa