Alfred Duclos Detect

Alfred Duclos DeCelles (August 8th 1843 - October 5th 1925) was a journalist, a writer, a lawyer and a librarian Québécois. During thirty-five years, of 1885 with 1920, he was the chief of the Bibliothèque of the Parliament to Ottawa. It often signed A.D. DeCelles .

Born in the St. Lawrence, he studies with the Séminaire of Quebec, where he supplements his traditional studies. Director of the library of his establishment, he becomes writer with the newspaper of Quebec to the invitation of Joseph-Edouard Cauchon, which left for Europe.

Collaborator of 1867 with 1872, it supplements his studies of right and enters to the Barreau of Quebec in 1873. He writes in Minerve until in 1880.

Detect defends the preserving policies of John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier. Also, he prefers North-American freedom with the mode of Leon Gambetta which concentrates the public authorities.

When Antoine Gérin-Lajoie dies in station in 1882, it is replaced by Alpheus Todd, and Detect becomes its assistant. Todd dies in its turn in 1884; the following year, Decelles is named to succeed to him.

As a librarian as a chief of the Parliament, he was not only one civil servant, but a scientist scholar. One of the founders club of the Ten, it collaborates in several reviews, of which the Public opinion, the Canadian Review, the Press, Minerve, News-France and French Canada.

As a biographer and a historian, he wrote the history of the the United States and told the life Louis-Joseph Papineau, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Wilfrid Laurier. The quality of its writing accepted the praises of Mgr Amédée Gosselin.

Deceased the October 5th 1925 with Ottawa, a homage was returned to him by Georges Pelletier, journalist with the Duty. Later, one reproached him his texts Antisémite S.

He had married Eugenie Dorion in 1876. His/her son Alfred DeCelles was a linguist.

Works published

  • the United States: origin, institutions, development, 1896
  • Mémoires of Robert-Shore-Milnes Bouchette, 1805-1840/collected by his/her son Errol Bouchette and annotated by have. - D. Detect, 1903
  • Papineau, 1905
  • Lafontaine and its time, 1907
  • Cartier and its time, 1907
  • Constitutions of Canada, 1918
  • Laurier and its time, 1920

Honors

  • Member of the royal Company of Canada, 1884
  • arts Doctor of the University Laval, 1891
  • Legion of honor of France, 1903
  • Order of Saint Michel and Saint-Georges, 1907

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