Gallery 2 - Sense of belonging and taking roots into Greater Madawaska (1860-1960)
16. Drummond
Alfred Lang (1893-1986) (am_783)
Born in Clair, Alfred was the son of Thomas P. Lang and Claudia Morneault. He studied in Clair then
at the Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière College and at the Grand Séminaire in Quebec. In 1921, he was
ordained a priest by Cardinal Bégin in the Quebec Basilica. He was curate in Chatham, Saint-Basile,
Saint-Léonard and Edmundston before being named parish priest of Saint-Isidore. In 1941, he became
parish priest of Drummond where he lived until 1968. He was named Domestic Prelate in 1960. Msgr.
Lang retired in Grand Falls and then at the Foyer St. Joseph in Saint-Basile. He was buried in the
cemetery of the parish of Drummond.
