Cyprien Tanguay

Cyprien Tanguay (Quebec, 1819 - 1902) was a genealogist, a priest and a Canadian professor. Researcher recognized in his trade, it is called the father of the genealogy Canadian-Frenchwoman .

After having made its traditional Course and its theology with the Seminar of Quebec, it was ordered priest in 1843. The first twenty-two years of its priesthood were devoted in a parish of Rimouski, where it contributed to found the seminar diocesan.

Endowed for the genealogical Research, it is officially named in 1867 at the department of statistics of the Dominion, the ancestor of Statistique Canada. During twenty-three years, he consults the registers of Canada and New England and work to compile his monumental Dictionnaire Tanguay, which is always a reference in the field.

The historian Gerard Malchelosse revised of his work, which includes/understands seven great volumes of more than six hundred pages. Moreover, its research on the marriage contracts could contribute to solve certain difficulties relating to the canonical Droit. Thanks to him, the Canadians and the Americans of French origin are able to recall their roots until worms the 17th century in Europe.

It is in addition the first to have made an exhaustive investigation into the Canadian clergy, before even as Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire does not come to perfect its work.

Works published

  • Repertory of the clergy Canadian-French
  • Through the registers
  • genealogical Dictionary of the Canadian-Frenchwomen families, 1871-1890

Honors

  • Prélature granted by Leon XIII
  • Price Cyprien-Tanguay of the Québécois Federation of the companies of genealogy

External bond

Source: Jacques Gagnon, Cyprien Tanguay, Father of the Québécois and Canadian genealogy , Montreal, Lidec, coll Celebrities, 2005,62 p.

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