William Chapman

William Chapman (1850-1917) was a writer and a Canadian poet.

Biography

Wire of George William Chapman, merchant, and from Caroline Angers, sister of François-Réal Angers, it is born with Saint-François-with-Beauce. He attends the Collège of Lévis and the Université Laval before forsaking the studies. Liberal journalist, it occupies several trades, of which civil servant, salesman of insurances and bookseller. In the Years 1890, it writes impressed poems of naturalism and patriotism in the style of Louis Fréchette. Become translator with the Canadian Senate in 1902, it dies in Ottawa in 1917.

Works

  • Québecquoises, 1876
  • Gold mines of Beauce, 1881
  • Guide and memory of the St-Jean-Baptist, Montreal, 1884
  • maple sheets, 1890
  • the prize winner, 1894
  • Two buddies: retort with Misters Fréchette and Sauvalle, 1894
  • In connection with the Guerre Spanish-American, 1898
  • the aspirations: Canadian poetries, 1904
  • rays of North, 1909
  • flowers of white frost, 1912
  • Some poems of Chapman, 1949

Reviews and newspapers

  • Minerve
  • the Fatherland

Honors

  • Medal of honor of the Academy of the palm trees in Paris, 1890
  • Officer of the State education of France

External bond

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