Antoine Marie Garin
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Antoine Marie Garin (23 July 1810 – 14 April 1889) was a French Roman Catholic priest, missionary and educationalist who came to New Zealand. He was born in Rambert-en-Bugey, France on 23 July 1810.[1]
He died in 1889 and was buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson.[1]
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A secondary school, Garin College in Nelson, New Zealand, is named after Antoine Marie Garin.[2] Nelson has a region called Garindale on the way into the city from Blenheim, a Garin Heights at Atawhai, a Garin Grove and an Antoine Grove in Richmond. There is a Garin Way in Mt Wellington, Auckland, and an Espace Antoine Garin in his home town of Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey, Ain, France.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Broadbent, John V. "Antoine Marie Garin". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ "Father Garin". www.garincollege.ac.nz. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
- ^ Peter Tremewan & Giselle Larcombe, eds., Living Among the Northland Maori: Diary of Father Antoine Garin, 1844-1846, University of Canterbury Press: Christchurch, New Zealand, 2019, 9 & 551.
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