Champlain Marcil (19202010) was a French Canadian photojournalist best known for being the photographer of the daily newspaper ''

Le Droit ''Le Droit'' is a Canadian French-language daily newspaper, published in Gatineau, Quebec. Initially established and owned by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the paper was published by Martin Cauchon and his company, Capitales Médias ...

'' from 1948 to 1969. In addition, he was active from 1940 to 1985 in depicting the

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region of western

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and

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Personal life

Marcil was born in Ottawa in June, 1920. He married in 1947, and had five children. He died in 2010 and is interred in Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa. He was a life member of the

University of Ottawa The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...

, and a member of various Christian organizations.

Career

He began his career as a professional photographer in 1940, recording the Eucharistic Congress at

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ...

.Fonds d'archives Champlain Marcil - BAnQ Gatineau
/ref> In 1947, he shot the and became a freelancer for ''Le Droit'', becoming a permanent contributor from 1954 to 1969. At the same time, he was class photographer for 125 schools in the

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- Ottawa area. The Champlain Marcil archives contains 135,425 photographs and is preserved in the

Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec ( 'National Library and Archives of Quebec') or BAnQ is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library. Located at the G ...

(National Library and Archives of Québec) in Gatineau.Fonds d'archives Champlain Marcil - BAnQ Gatineau
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References

External links

Champlain Marcil archives
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