The Gérin-Lajoie family is a
French-Canadian family descended from Jean Gérin ''
dit'' La joie, a sergeant in the troops of the military forces of
Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, in
New France
New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spa ...
, who arrived in Canada around 1750.
Several members of the family have been notable members of the legal, social and intellectual communities of Quebec since the 19th century.
Notable members
* Antoine Gérin ''
dit'' Lajoie, a poet, married to Marie-Amable Gélinas
** André Gérin, dit ''la Joie'' (, in
Yamachiche, – , in Yamachiche)
***
André Gérin-Lajoie (, in Yamachiche, – ?), married to Ursule Caron, daughter of
Charles Caron.
****
Charles Gérin-Lajoie (, in Yamachiche, – , in
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 ...
), member of the
House of Commons of Canada for
Saint-Maurice. He married Élizabeth Dupont on September 19, 1843.
**
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie
Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (; August 4, 1824 – August 7, 1882) was a Québécois Canadian attorney, poet and novelist.
He was the author of the famous poem "Un Canadien errant" ('A Wandering Canadian'), as well as the novels roman du terroir ''Jea ...
(, in
Yamachiche, – , in
Ottawa), lawyer and novelist
***
Léon Gérin
Léon Gérin (; May 17, 1863 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian lawyer, civil servant, and sociologist.
Born in Quebec City, Canada East, the son of Antoine Gérin-Lajoie, Gérin studied at the Séminaire de Nicolet before receiving a law degr ...
(, in
Quebec City
Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...
, – , in
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...
), Quebec's first
sociologist, president of the
Royal Society of Canada
**
Elzéar Gérin (, in Yamachiche, – , in Montreal), married Marie-Agathe-Élodie Dufresne on October 14, 1873.
** Denis Gérin
**
Henri Gérin-Lajoie (, in Quebec City – ), lawyer and
bâtonnier of Quebec. He married the pioneering
feminist Marie Lacoste (known as
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (19 October 1867 – 1 November 1945) was a Canadian feminist. She was a professor at the Université de Montréal, and a self-taught legal expert (her father and husband were both lawyers, and she had access to their ...
), the daughter of
Alexandre Lacoste, in 1887
*** Marie Gérin-Lajoie (, in Montreal, – , in Montreal), social worker and founder of a religious community
***
Henri Gérin-Lajoie II ( – )
****
Paul Gérin-Lajoie (, in Montreal, – , in Montreal), politician and creator of the Gérin-Lajoie doctrine.
References
See also
*
Gérin-Lajoie
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Canadian families