Albert Tessier

Albert Tessier (March 6th 1895 - September 13rd 1976) was a priest, a professor, a historian and a pioneer of the Québécois Cinéma.

Native of Holy-Anne-with-the-Pérade, he is the son of Alphonse Tessier and Sophie Rompré, the junior by an family of five children. He studies at the school of the “Bottom Of Holy-Anne”, with the College of the Sacred Heart then to the seminar of Three-Rivers.

Having received its sacerdotal ordination of Mgr François-Xavier Nailsmith the June 29th 1920, it obtains its doctorate in Théologie with Rome in 1922. After literary studies with the catholic Institute of Paris, it returns to Quebec in 1924.

Become professor of history and literature with Three-Rivers, he is noticed for his methods of teaching avant-gardists, teaching the manner of fighting against idleness.

Tessier or “Tess” is promoted higher studies than the college trifluvien. It takes then the role of provincial person in charge of the Québécois domestic schools during several years. In 1937, it replaces Thomas Chapais with the pulpit of history of Canada of the Université Laval.

Its career in the cinema starts in 1925. With Maurice Proulx, Jean-Marie Poitevin, Louis-Roger Lafleur and Aloysius Vachet, it belongs to those which one calls the “priest-scenario writers”, who transmit the values of the Sacerdoce towards the big screen.

It realizes more than seventy films which will mark the development of the cinema in Canada. Its preferred topics are nature, the history, the religion, Three-Rivers, education, and the culture. All its films are approached in a real or probable context.

Tessier is recognized to have created the term “Mauricie”, which replaced the old expression of “valley of the Saint-Maurice”. Albert Tessier dies with the Hôpital Saint-Joseph the September 13rd 1976.

Catalog of films

  • Trees and animals, 1942-1943

  • cottage Industry, 1939-1942
  • Hudson Bay, 1950
  • Bless the Lord, 1937
  • Bourgault, 1940
  • It is the oar which carries out us, 1942
  • Cantique of Creation, 1942
  • Cantique of the sun, 1935
  • Centenaire, 1934
  • Chutes of various films of Albert Tessier
  • Congrès eucharistic trifluvien, 1941
  • constructive Conquête, 1939
  • Credo of the peasant, 1942
  • In wood, 1925-1930
  • religious Démonstrations trifluviennes, 1933-1936
  • Of the Three-Rivers to the River-with-Rat visits with Pierre, 1941-1944
  • Mauricie, 1952
  • Schools of happiness, 1954
  • Schools and schoolboys, 1939-1940
  • regional domestic Schools, 1942
  • domestic Schools regional spoiled women, 1942
  • strong Woman, 1938
  • odd Women realization and comments, 1948
  • the beneficial forest, 1942-1943
  • Glory with water, 1935-1950
  • invigorating good life of the forest, 1942-1943
  • Homage to our farming community, 1938
  • It Island-with-Coudres, 1939
  • Island-with-Cranes, ground of serenity, 1939
  • the Island of Orleans, reliquary of history, 1939
  • the flowered Island, 1939
  • Indian of Mauricie, 1936
  • My family, 1938
  • the Miracle of the Chamberland priest, 1938
  • Mount-Carmel, 1939
  • Parki-parka, 1951
  • Fishing, 1937-1940
  • Pot-rotted of animals, 1940-1950
  • to like your country, 1942
  • Four Canadian artists, 1938-1948
  • domestic Rallyings, 1949-1951
  • Rock, 1950
  • Tavibois, 1950
  • nautical Tourism, 1936
  • Three-Rivers, 1949
  • Three-Rivers, 1932
  • Three-Rivers, 1934
  • Three-Rivers under snow, 1937
  • an enthralling sport; Hunting for the images, 1936-1942

Honors

External bonds

  • Biography

  • Funds Albert-Tessier of the Cégep of Three-Rivers
  • the Agora
  • Assessment of the University of Sherbrooke

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