Valentin Landry (February 14, 1844 – May 17, 1919) was a Canadian educator and journalist of
Acadian
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descent. His name also appears as Valentin Augustus Landry and Valentin-A. Landry.
The son of Joseph-Auguste Landry and Olive Robichaud, he was born in
Pokemouche, New Brunswick and was educated there and in
Shediac and at Westmorland Grammar School, where he received a commercial studies diploma, and later continued his education at
St. Joseph's College. He taught school in
Weymouth and then earned his teacher's certificate from the
normal school in
Truro.
Landry's great great grandfather
Alexis Landry Alexis Landry (1721 – March 6, 1798) was an Acadian merchant who helped establish the town of Caraquet.
The son of Jean Landry and Claire Le Blanc, he was born in Grand-Pré in what is now Nova Scotia. In 1743, he moved to the seigneury of B ...
helped found
Caraquet, New Brunswick.
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In 1870, Landry married Mary Lavinia Beckwith, also a teacher. The couple then taught school in Beaver River, Weymouth and Plympton. Landry ran for the Digby County seat in the provincial assembly in 1878 as a Liberal but withdrew to join the preparatory division of the normal school at ]Fredericton
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. From 1879 to 1886, he was a school inspector for, the first Acadian to hold such a post.[
In 1885, Landry helped found the newspaper ''Courrier des provinces Maritimes in Bathurst'' and served on its board of directors until 1887. In 1886, he moved to ]Digby
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, where he founded '; he moved the newspaper to Weymouth in 1889. In the same year, he established an English-language newspaper the ''Free Press'' with his wife. Landry moved ''L’Évangéline'' to New Brunswick in 1905. In 1910, to ensure the continued operation of the newspaper after attracting the opposition of the Catholic Church, he transferred its ownership to a separate company and relinquished the position of editor. The paper continued to operate until 1982.[
Letters written by Émilie Leblanc under the name Marichette were published in Landry's newspaper until 1898 although, in April 1895, he expressed his opposition to providing a platform for women's views because he was opposed to women's suffrage.][
Landry also played an active role at several Conventions Nationale des Acadiens.][
His first wife died in 1910; he married her niece Mary U. Beckwith in 1913. Landry later died in Moncton at the age of 75.][
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1844 births
1919 deaths
Canadian schoolteachers
Journalists from New Brunswick
Journalists from Nova Scotia
Acadian people