Pierre Veyrat (d. 2014)
Pierre Veyat, Pierre Rigaud, and Jean-Marie Mouchet were among more than ninety seminarians at the Oblate of Mary Immaculate scholasticate in a small town about eighty kilometres east of Paris. In July 1944, their active support of the French underground was betrayed to the Nazis. Veyrat was using his artistic talent to create false identity cards. The Allied forces liberated the Oblates before they were sent to Buchenwald, and they able to resume their studies.1)
Father Vayrat came to the Yukon in 1947 and again in 1950. He returned in 1967 to stay as the Catholic priest in Ross River.2) Father Veyat was the priest at Ross River for forty-one years.3)