Gérard Bouchard (born 1943) is a Canadian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and sociologist affiliated with the

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi The Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) is a branch of the Université du Québec network founded in 1969 and based in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. UQAC has secondary study centres in La Malbaie, Saint-Félicien ...

. Born on 26 December 1943 in

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, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from

Université Laval Université Laval is a public research university in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The university was founded by royal charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852, with roots in the founding of the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by François de Montmo ...

in 1968 and later obtained his PhD in history from the

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in 1971. Bouchard had authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 26 books, and published 230 papers in scientific journals as of 2005. Bouchard is the younger brother of

Lucien Bouchard Lucien Bouchard (; born December 22, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, diplomat and retired politician. Minister for two years in the Mulroney cabinet, Bouchard then led the emerging Bloc Québécois and became Leader of the Opposition in the House ...

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from 1996 to 2001. Like his brother, he is a supporter of the

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. In 2007, he was appointed along with Charles Taylor to chair a provincial government inquiry into "

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Timeline

* 1971 – He begins teaching at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. * 1972 – He founds the BALSAC database * 1976 – He founds the Société de recherches sur les populations (SOREP), which became the Institut interuniversitaire de recherche sur les populations (IREP) in 1994. * 1985 – He receives the

Jacques Rousseau Award Jacques Rousseau Award is an award given by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) to an individual or group who develop bridges between scientific disciplines. The award is named for Jacques Rousseau who was both a botanist and an anth ...

of the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences. * 1993 – he receives the

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(

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for Science) for his contribution to social studies. * 1996 – He receives the , the Prix François-Xavier-Garneau, and the Prix John A. Macdonald for his work ''Quelques arpents d'Amérique : Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838–1971''. * 1999 – His work ''La Nation québécoise au futur et au passé'' is published. * 2000 – He receives the Governor General Literary Award for his work ''Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde''. * 2001 – He receives the . * 2001 – He receives an honorary doctorate from

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. * 2002 – His first fictional work, ', is published. A second novel entitled ''Pikauba'' followed in 2005. * 2002 – Was made a Knight of the

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by the French government. * 2003 – His work ''Les Deux Chanoines – Contradiction et ambivalence dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx'' is published. * 2004 – His work ', 1850–1960 is published. * 2006 – He receives an honorary doctorate from the

Université de Moncton The Université de Moncton is a Canadian francophone university in New Brunswick. It includes campuses in Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan. The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on higher ed ...

. * February 2007 – He is named co-chair, along with the philosopher Charles Taylor, of the Bouchard–Taylor Commission, a one-year Quebec commission to examine the issue of "reasonable accommodation" for minorities in the province.

References

External links

Homepage of Gérard Bouchard at the UQAC

Profile on the Website of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Article
de Gérard Bouchard, présentant son ouvrage ''L'interculturalisme : Un point de vue québécois'', 2012. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouchard, Gerard 1943 births 20th-century Canadian historians 20th-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian male writers 21st-century Canadian novelists Academics in Quebec Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian male novelists Canadian novelists in French Canadian sociologists French Quebecers Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers Historians of Quebec Quebec sovereigntists Critics of multiculturalism Living people Writers from Saguenay, Quebec Historians from Quebec Université Laval alumni University of Paris alumni Université Laval faculty Canadian expatriates in France