Henri-Raymond Casgrain

Henri-Raymond Casgrain (December 16th 1831 - February 11th 1904) was a Historien, a Critique arts person and a man of the church Québécois. He is called the Abbé Casgrain .

Native of River-Ouelle, it studies with the college of Holy-Anne-with-the-Pocatière starting from 1843. He is the son of Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain, appointed which was opposed to the 92 resolutions. Intending itself initially for the career of doctor, it supplements his studies in theology and receives the sacrament of the order the October 5th 1856 of Mgr Pierre-Flavien Turgeon. He teaches until in 1859, after which he is excused for health reasons.

Casgrain plays a big role in the history of the Canadian Littérature: it is indeed its first critic. Priesthood enabled him to exert its literary leisure freely.

It starts to publish in 1860 in the Mail of Canada . Its first writings are tales and legends. The same year, it is named Vicaire with Quebec. It benefits from its nomination to visit the bookstore of Octave Crémazie and to enrich its knowledge on the Histoire by Canada.

Casgrain is the creator of two reviews: the Evenings Candiennes and the Canadian Hearth . It has a leading conflict with Leger Brousseau and must then leave the first review.

Casgrain becomes biographer and writes the life of Marie of the Incarnation, François-Xavier Garneau and George-Barthelemy Faribault. It also approaches the ideas of Alexis Pelletier, in favor of the Gaumisme in the state education.

Suffering from Eye disease, and henceforth confined at its native village, it must give up the priesthood during the Années 1870. That does nothing but increase its effort and its interest for the social questions of Canada, and it more often publishes.

Its services are requisitioned by the intendant with education, Gédéon Ouimet, and with his friends editors, it sells 80.000 works, which enables him to live well and distribute its profits to the religious communities. It receives an honorary doctorate with the Université Laval in 1877.

He travels in France and to the the United States during the winter to cultivate and meet foreign archivists. In the Years 1890, it will be interested much in the history of the Acadie and the Général Montcalm. Some of its works are crowned by the French Academy.

He teaches the history with the Université Laval until the end of his life and devotes himself to write his memories, entitled Souvenances Canadian . In 1889 and 1890, he is also the president of the royal Société of Canada. He dies in Quebec on February 11th, 1904.

Camille Roy will succeed to him as official critic of the letters in Canada, with the others Priest-critical S. Like Priest-historian, the value of its writings is estimated than those of FX Garneau or the Abbé Ferland because of the patriotism which shows through its intentions.

Its influence on the Canadian authors will remain important at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. Its posthumous publications appear in 1912, 1924 and 1994. The seminar of Quebec has funds Henri-Raymond Casgrain where all its private documents are preserved.

Works published

Canadian Legends, 1861
the Knight Falardeau, 1862
History of the mother Marie of the Incarnation, first higher of the Ursulines of New France, 1864
Auguste-Eugene Aubry, 1865
Discovered tomb of Champlain, 1866
F.X. Garneau, 1866
G.B. Faribault, 1867
Lives of the saints for the every day of the year, 1868
the Crumbs
the pilgrimage of the good Holy-Anne, 1870
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, 1871
Francis Parkman, 1872
Fishing with the Porpoise S in the SAINT LAURENT river, 1873
complete Works of abbot H.R. Casgrain, 1875
Opuscules, 1876
History of the Hospital of Quebec, 1878
the Memorial of the vicissitudes and progress of the French language in Canada, 1879
a Canadian Parish at the XVIIe century, 1880
complete Works of Octave Crémazie, 1882
History of the parish of Cape-Health, 1884
Jongleuse, 1884
an Excursion with the Island-with-Coudres the, 1885
Poetries of Crémazie Octave, 1886
a Pilgrimage with the country of Evangéline, 1887
Ten years in Canada of 1840 to 1850,1891
new Documentation on Canada and America, 1891
Montcalm and Lévis, 1891
David Têtu and raiders of Saint-Alban, 1891
One Second Acadie, 1894
Dramas of the Canadian forest, 1895
the Asylum of Good-Pasteur of Quebec, according to annals of this institute, 1896
Canadian Pioneers, 1896
Sulpiciens and priests of mission-foreign in Acadie (1676-1762), 1897
Notes relating to the inscriptions of the monument of Champlain, 1898
Champlain: its life and its character, 1898
Wolfe and Montcalm, 1898
Faribault and the family of Dirty Laterrière, 1912
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie according to his memories, 1912
French in Canada, 1923
Heroes of Quebec, 1923
De Gaspé and Garneau, 1924
literary silhouettes of Placid Lépine, 1994

External bond

Biography of the biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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