Gustave Bourassa

Gustave Bourassa (1860-1904), which was several years secretary of the Université Laval with Montreal and died cleaned Saint-Louis of France, was born with Montebello, today in the county of Papineau, on June 15th, 1860.

His/her father, Napoleon Bourassa, whose family was of origin poitevine in France and of descent Acadie in Canada, is the artist and the writer, well-known with whom one must of beautiful books and beautiful architectural and pictorial works. By his mother, born Azélie Papineau, the Gustave abbot was the grandson of Louis-Joseph Papineau, powerful orator and politician Québécois.

His/her single brother is his junior eight year old, Mr. Henri Bourassa, appointed Labelle. It is with the Manoir of Papineau that the future abbot came in the world, with Montebello, in 1860.

The years of the childhood and the youth of the Bourassa abbot were passed in Montreal, where he studied at the school of the Plate and the Collège of Montreal. After one year of Philosophy to Quebec, it returned to Montreal for its second year and its time of great seminar. One moment, he thought of being made Jesuit and he spent a few months to the noviciate of Sault-with-Récollet the. Definitively, it decided soon to give itself to the secular clergy, and it was ordered catholic priest, on August 11th, 1884, by M {{gr.}} Fabre, in the vault Notre-Dame de Lourdes, that his/her father, Napoleon Bourassa, had just decorated. Party, at once after its ordination, to go to perfect its studies with Rome, it lived three years there, with the French seminar of Santa Chiara, while following the courses of the Roman Collège, where it conquered its title of doctor in canonical Droit.

Of return to Montreal, it was initially a year (1888-1889) secretary of the Laval University, whose vice-rector of then, the Marcoux abbot, were a priest of the seminar of Quebec. It was the year even pontifical decree of February 1889 and before the arrival, the next summer, of the vice-rector Proulx at the University. From 1889 to 1894, the Bourassa abbot exerted the functions of vicar to the Saint-Joseph church of the street Richmond. In 1894-1895, it was assisting abbot Verreau, the main thing at the Teacher training school Jacques-Cartier. Turned over to Europe in 1895, he travelled and followed meanwhile courses of literature to the catholic Institut and the Sorbonne of Paris.

With the autumn of 1896, returned to Montreal, it was again named secretary of the Laval University, and it occupied this high item eight years, of 1896 to 1904, under the vice-vice-chancellorship of Mgr Racicot and that of Mgr Archambeault. In April 1904, it became finally cleaned of Saint-Louis de France. And it is there that he died, following a banal accident, on November 20th of the same year, at 44 years.

Doctor in right of Rome, doctor be-letters of Quebec, senior of the Faculty of Arts of Montreal, member of the royal Company of Canada and several other learned societies Whereas he was secretary of the University, and also when he had become cleaned of Saint-Louis de France, Mr. Bourassa occupied himself, of the community incipient from the Sisters of the Immaculate-Design, founded in June 1902, with Our-Lady-of-Snows, Montreal by Mère Marie of the Holy Spirit (born Tétreault Marie-Untied).

The Bourassa abbot left, in several reviews, the Canadian Revue for example, or in detached opuscules, number of studies or articles, supérieurement written, very personal, curious and interesting, on M {{gr.}} Le Bourget, on Mère Gamelin, Chauveau, or the Fables of the Fountain, on the Rembouillet hotel, Montalembert. Its volume of Conferences and Discours account, with those of the judge Routhier, of Mgr Paul-Eugene Roy and Mr. the senator Chapais among best of the kind to be produced in Canada.

References

Elie-J. Auclair Canadian Figures , Montreal, 1933.

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