Leon Gérin (1863 - 1951) was the first Sociologue Québécois.

Wire of the poet Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, he studies with the Séminaire of Quebec, then made his right to the Université Laval. Remaining with Paris, he discovers his sociological vocation in 1886.

Initially legal shorthand writer, he becomes personal secretary of the minister Auguste-Réal Angers. Starting from 1903, it translates the debates of the House of Commons of Canada. He marries Adrienne Walker.

Gérin accumulates many documents on the company Canadian-Frenchwoman and multiplies her correspondences and its publications. Its work will influence the sociologist Georges-Henri Lévesque. Appointed president of the royal Company of Canada, he is member elect of the Médaille Lorne Pierce in 1941.

The Price Leon-Gérin and the Médaille Innis-Gérin are named in its honor. Herve Carrier and Jean-Charles Falardeau wrote on its life.

Works published

• the Farmer émancipé , 1937
• With the sources of our history. Social economic conditions and of colonization in News-France , 1948
• the economic and social Type of the Canadians. Agricultural mediums of French traditions , 1948