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Albéric Bourgeois
Albéric Bourgeois (November 29, 1876 – November 17, 1962) was a Canadian cartoonist, credited with creating the first continuing comic strip to use word balloons in Canada. Personal history and career Albéric Bourgeois was born November 29, 1876. He studied fine arts in Montréal until 1899, and continued in Boston, where he then landed a job at ''The Boston Post'' where he was producing '' The Education of Annie'' in 1902. He started at the newspaper '' La Patrie'' when he returned to Montréal in 1903. He did political cartoons, as well as the comic strip '' Les Aventures de Timothée'', which may have been the first continuing Québécois comic strip. Later, he spent 25 years as cartoonist for '' La Presse'', where he created a number of series, including '' Les Aventures de Toinon'' from 1905 to 1908, and '' Les Fables du Parc Lafontaine'' from 1906 to 1908. In February 1905, he took over '' Le Père Ladébauche'' from Joseph Charlebois. This was the most famous co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montréal, Quebec
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
