Henri-Raymond Casgrain (December 16, 1831 – February 11, 1904) was a

French Canadian French Canadians (referred to as Canadiens mainly before the twentieth century; french: Canadiens français, ; feminine form: , ), or Franco-Canadians (french: Franco-Canadiens), refers to either an ethnic group who trace their ancestry to Fren ...

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priest, author, publisher, and professor of history.

Life

Born in

Rivière-Ouelle Rivière-Ouelle () is a town located in the Kamouraska Regional County Municipality within the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. It is located on the Saint Lawrence River; the Ouelle River flows through the town. It was part of the seignory of ...

Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...

, the son

Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain (December 28, 1800 – February 29, 1848) was a lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born at Rivière-Ouelle in Lower Canada in 1800, the son of merchant Pierre Casgrain, and studied at the Petit S ...

and Eliza Anne Baby, Casgrain studied at College of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière. In 1852, he enrolled in the Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery, but became a priest in 1856. He started teaching at the College of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière until he was forced to give up teaching because of ill health. In 1859, he was appointed curate of the parish of La Nativité-de-Notre-Dame at Beauport and was free to devote himself entirely to literary pursuits. In 1877, he was awarded a doctorate of history from the Universite Laval, where he would remain as professor. He wrote primarily on

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

and its personalities, such as

Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain (; Fichier OrigineFor a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December 1635) was a Fre ...

Louis-Joseph de Montcalm Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (28 February 1712 – 14 September 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American th ...

and his aide-de-camp

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. From 1889 to 1890, he was the president of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

Selected bibliography

''Pélerinage au pays d'Évangéline'' (1855)

''Histoire de la Mère Marie de l'Incarnation'' (1864)
* ''Découverte du tombeau de Champlain'' (1866) with Laverdiere * ''Histoire de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec'' (1878)
''Une paroisse canadienne au XVIIe siècle'' (1880)
* ''Histoire de l'asile du Bon-Pasteur de Québec'' (1890) * ''Guerre du Canada: Montcalm et Lévis'' (1891, v.1)
''Guerre du Canada: Montcalm et Lévis'' (1891, v.2)
* ''Les français au Canada: Montcalm et Lévis''
''Une seconde Acadie'' (1894)
* ''Les Sulpiciens et les prêtres des Missions étrangères en Acadie''(1897)
''Éclaircissements sur la question acadienne''
* ''Champlain : sa vie et son caractère'' (1898)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Casgrain, Henri-Raymond Beaubien-Casgrain family 1831 births 1904 deaths Canadian male non-fiction writers 19th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests Writers from Quebec Canadian non-fiction writers in French Academic staff of Université Laval 19th-century Canadian historians 19th-century Canadian male writers

Life

Selected bibliography

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