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3 unusual facts about John Luck


Gatineau municipal election, 1987

Incumbent mayor Gaétan Cousineau was narrowly re-elected over a challenge from former mayor John Luck.

John Luck

In 1886 Luck obtained members of the Society of Joseph for the Foreign Missions, known as the Mill Hill fathers, for work among the Māori people, who, except for the mission of James McDonald, had been neglected by the Catholic Church since the 1860s.

Luck was born in Peckham, Surrey, England, on 18 March 1840, one of seven children of Alfred Luck, a warehouseman, and his wife, Clementina Golding.



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