Early Life
Lacombe was born in Saint-Sulpice, Lower Canada, to Albert Lacombe and Agathe Duhamel on 28 February 1827. Since his parents were farmers, most of his early life was spent on the family farm. However, he was from an early age highly religious. At age 22, he was ordained a priest on 13 June 1849, following studies at the Collège de l'Assomption in L'Assomption, Canada East.
Following ordination, he was sent west to Pembina, Minnesota Territory, where he worked from 1849 to 1851 with the Jesuit priest, Fr George Belcourt. In 1851 he returned briefly to Canada East, where he secured a position as a curate in the town Berthier.
Lacombe returned east to be assistant priest at Berthier-en-Haut (Berthierville), Canada East, in 1851–52 but, since his wish to work in the West was unabated, Bishop Ignace Bourget of Montreal allowed him to go back to Red River in 1852 with Bishop Alexandre-Antonin Taché.
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