FARAUD, HENRI-JOSEPH. — Born on 17 March 1823 at Gigondas (France), died on 26 September 1890 at St-Boniface (Canada). He became an Oblate of Mary Immaculate in 1844 and was sent to the Canadian northwestern mission in 1846, where in 1851 he founded the mission of Lake Athabasca. In 1856 he visited, as the first missionary, the Indians at Great Slave Lake, and in the years 1858 and 1859 he worked among the Indians of the Peace River. In 1862 he was appointed the first apostolic vicar of the Mackenzie River. He developed and consolidated the Indian missions of his vast territory. He was the author of several books in the Montagnais language.
He wrote: Dix-huit aux chez les sauvages (2e ed., Paris 1870); Quarante aux chez les sauvages d'Athabasca-Mackenzie (in Les missions catholiques, Lyon 1888).
Bibl., Streit, Bibl., III, no. 2527, pp. 454–56, 490–92, 502–503, 512–14, 537–39. Giovanni Remmerskirchen