Claude Bernard Aubry (October 23, 1914 – November 3, 1984) was a Canadian library administrator and award-winning author. He was born in

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and was educated at the

Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal Collège Sainte-Marie was a college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It ceased to exist in 1969, when it was merged into UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal). History Collège Ste-Marie was founded by Jesuits in 1848. It had an English secto ...

. He worked for a Montreal trust company and then went on to study library science at

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. Aubry became personnel manager at the

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in 1945. In 1949, he was named Assistant Chief Librarian for the

Ottawa Public Library The Ottawa Public Library (OPL; french: Bibliothèque publique d'Ottawa) is the library system of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The library was founded in 1906 with a donation from the Carnegie Foundation. Services * Information and reference servi ...

. Aubry was chief librarian for the Ottawa library from 1953 until his retirement in 1979. He was a member of the Association France-Canada and served as president of the Ottawa Library Association. In 1974, Aubry was named to the

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. He was also named to the French Ordre international du Bien Public. In 1981,

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established the Claude Aubry award in his honour. Aubry's books were translated into various languages including English, Chinese and Romanian. He also translated books by Brian Doyle and

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into French. Aubry died in Montreal at the age of 70.

Selected works

* ''La Vengeance des hommes de bonne volonté'', children's literature (1944), received an award from the Quebec Département de l'Instruction publique, republished as ''Le loup de Noël'' * ''Les îles du roi Maha Maha II'', children's literature, received the prize for youth literature from the

References

External links

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Biography of Claude Aubry
at Ex Libris Association {{DEFAULTSORT:Aubry, Claude 1914 births 1984 deaths Canadian children's writers in French Canadian librarians Members of the Order of Canada McGill University School of Information Studies alumni 20th-century Canadian translators