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Petitot, Emile, 1838-1916
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Emile Fortune Stanislas Joseph Petitot was born in 1838 in southern France near Marseilles. At twenty-four he was ordained to the Priesthood and joined the order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The Oblates order sent Petitot to North America in 1862 and he spent the next 13 years in the Mackenzie Valley as a missionary and explorer. He died in 1916.