LORTIE, STANISLAS-ALFRED

Bulletin du parler français au Canada (Québec) [see Stanislas-Alfred Lortie

Lortie]. At the general chapter meeting in September, he showed signs of the illness that would prove fatal. After trying to find a cure in Spain, he returned to Oka, where he died on 1 Aug

Lortie]. He died peacefully, surrounded by his family, on 11 June 1918 and was buried wearing the habit of a third order Franciscan. On 16 Sept. 1980, in recognition of his

participant in the first congress of the French language held in Quebec City two years later [see Stanislas-Alfred Lortie] and he promoted French in those bleak years when it was under bitter and

classes [see Stanislas-Alfred Lortie]. They saw such institutions as a way of defusing social