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THE CHURCH of St. Peter in Gentilly is the center of tire communi-ty's religious and social life. In the foreground is a .statue of Christ erected in to commemorate the Reverend Elie Theillon's fiftieth anniversary in the priesthood. A french - canadian Cormnunity in the Minnesota Red River Valley Virgil Benoit Gentilly , a township and small community in Polk County in the Red River Valley of northwestern Min-nesota, is made up mainly of the descendants of the french Canadians who settled there in large numbers during the last decades of the nineteenth century.
of French-Chippewa ancestry named Pierre Bottineau. An early Polk County settler recalled: "Pierre Bottineau and his son , Joh n B. brought i a large number of French Canadians from Ramsey and Hennepin Coun ... an d mor e French Canadians travele farther, th princi ...
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