Gervais Baudoin (3 August 1686 – 30 June 1752) was born in New France, the son of

Gervais Baudouin Gervais Baudouin (c. 1645 – 1700) was a surgeon born in France who came to New France about 1677. Baudouin's practice in Quebec consisted of being the doctor to the local Ursulines as well as the seminary of Quebec. In 1695, he was appointed s ...

, a surgeon-major of Quebec. He decided to pursue the medical profession and became a surgeon. Baudoin studied at the seminary of Quebec and then studied and practiced surgery. At one point in his career, he attempted to obtain his father's position as surgeon-major of Quebec but was unsuccessful. It appears that he applied himself almost exclusively to his profession after that point. He had a large family and had four children who entered religious orders as had his brother,

Michel Baudouin Michel Baudouin (Baudoin), (16 March 1691 – 1768), a Jesuit missionary, was born at Quebec and was the brother of Gervais Baudoin and son of Gervais Baudouin. Michel began his Jesuit noviciate at Bordeaux, France in 1713 and previous to tha ...

, who was a

Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

missionary.

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* 1686 births 1752 deaths People of New France 18th-century Canadian physicians {{Canada-med-bio-stub