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The Seminary in 1848

Drawing of a four-storey stone building with a hipped roof. Nine latticed windows are visible per floor, while the roof features seven dormers. Chimneys adorn each end of the roof. To the rear, at right, is a two-storey stone building. The property is ringed by a wooden fence.

Source: Private Collection, Dominique Beauregard
Image taken from the book Le Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, 1825-1925.
Abbé Émile Dubois, 1925

The Petit Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse was founded in 1825 by Father Charles-Joseph Ducharme. It initially occupied a house, before a more spacious purpose-built structure was completed in 1846 to house the growing number of students. The seminary offered both a classical education and instruction in theology for future members of clergy. Antoine Labelle studied there between 1844 and 1855. The original seminary was destroyed by fire in 1881 and a new one was built in its place.