Marshall Jerome Gauvin (April 3, 1881 – September 23, 1978), best known as Marshall J. Gauvin was a Canadian

atheist Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, atheism is specifically the position that there no ...

author and speaker in the

freethought Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and should instead be reached by other meth ...

movement. Gauvin was born near

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. He was a contributor to the ''

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'', a publication devoted to freethought. His collected writings are part of the collection of the

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. The description of the collection at the Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries states that "The collection is noted for its comprehensive holdings in free thought and rationalist literature." and " ...there is substantial material on atheism, biblical studies, science, oratory, early women's studies, and English literature and history

Selected publications

*''The Gauvin-Olson Debates on God and the Bible'' (1921)
''Did Jesus Christ Really Live?''
(1922) *''The Illustrated Story of Evolution'' (1921) *''The Fundamentals of Freethought'' (Peter Eckler Publishing Company, 1922) *''The Struggle Between Religion and Science'' (1923) *''Hell: A Christian Doctrine'' (

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