George William Albert Chapman, né George William Alphred (13 December 1850 – 23 February 1917), was a

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. Chapman was born at Saint-François-de-Beauce,

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(today's

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), and was educated at Levis College in 1862-1867. He studied law, afterward engaged in commercial pursuits, and later entered the civil service of the Province of Quebec. Chapman worked for some time as a

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and

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; but in 1902 became a French translator for the Dominion Senate and removed to

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. After his death in 1917, he was entombed at the

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in Montreal.

Selected bibliography

*''Les Québécoises'' (1876) *''Mines d'or de la Beauce'' (1881) *''Guide et souvenir de la St-Jean-Baptiste'' (1884), Montréal *''Les Feuilles d'érable'' (1890) *''Le lauréat'' (1894) *''Les deux Copains'' (1894) *''Les aspirations : poésies canadiennes'' (1904), which received the highest prize of the

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*''Les Rayons du Nord'' (1910), which also gained the highest prize of the Académie française *''Les Fleurs de givre'' (1912)

References

*W. H. New, ed. ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 191.

External links

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Biography at ''the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
* 19th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers 1850 births 1917 deaths Journalists from Quebec Writers from Quebec Anglophone Quebec people 19th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery {{canada-journalist-stub