Fr. Lorenzo Cadieux, SJ (November 10, 1903 – 1976) was a

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priest, historian and academic. Born in

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, he was educated in

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, Quebec and

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, Alberta, studying

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and

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, and was ordained in 1924. In 1940, he moved to

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to teach history at Collège Sacré-Coeur, which became part of

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in 1960. Cadieux served as head of the history faculty at Laurentian until his retirement in 1972. He also founded the Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario in 1942, a historical society which pursued historical research relating to

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. Cadieux was especially noted as one of the major early chroniclers of

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history. He also served as president of the Canadian Society of History in 1960. There is a Cadieux Lane in Sudbury named in his honour.

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1903 births 1976 deaths Canadian male non-fiction writers 20th-century Canadian Jesuits Academic staff of Laurentian University People from Granby, Quebec Writers from Greater Sudbury Writers from Quebec Franco-Ontarian people 20th-century Canadian historians Université Laval alumni {{Canada-historian-stub