Placide Vigneau (29 August 1842 − 1 March 1926 was a

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author. He was keeper of the

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from 1892 to 1912. He kept a journal that is preserved by the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Life

Placide Vigneau was born on Île du Havre aux Maisons, on the

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on August 29, 1842. His parents were Vital Vigneau, an offshore fisherman of

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n descent, and Élise Boudreau. He spent his childhood on the Magdalen Islands, where he learned the job of offshore fisherman. In 1858, the family moved to the village of Pointe-aux-Esquimaux (now

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) on the north shore of the

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. In 1892 he became the lighthouse keeper of Île aux Perroquets until 1912, when his son Hector succeeded him. His ''Histoire'' or ''Journal de la Pointe aux Esquimaux'' was published in the Report of the Archives du Québec (1968), and then as a work under the title ''Un pied d'ancre : journal de Placide Vigneau'' (1969). His work bears witness to the life of the inhabitants of

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. He died at Pointe-aux-Esquimaux on 1 March 1926. The Baie Placide-Vigneau was named in his honor..

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vigneau, Placide 1842 births 1926 deaths Writers from Quebec