Antoine Marie Garin

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]

Antoine Garin

He died in 1889 and was buried at Wakapuaka Cemetery in Nelson.[1]

Civic Honours

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
  1. Broadbent, John V. "Antoine Marie Garin". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. "Father Garin". www.garincollege.ac.nz. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
  3. 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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