Gaétan Gervais, (August 10, 1944 – October 20, 2018) was a

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author, historian and university professor, most noted as a prominent figure in

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culture. With a group of university students at

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, he designed the

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, and was a founding member of the Franco-Ontarian Institute.

Biography

Born in August 10, 1944 in

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, Gervais graduated from Laurentian University in 1965. He also obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the

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in 1968 and 1979. From 1972, he was a professor at Laurentian University.

Publications

*2010 – Avec Jean-Pierre Pichette (dir.), Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français : 1613–1993, Ottawa, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1097 p. () *2003 – Des gens de résolution : le passage du Canada français à l'Ontario français, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 230 p. () *2000 – Les jumelles Dionne et l'Ontario français, 1934–1944, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 246 p. (), Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen *1985 – Bibliographie : histoire du nord-est de l'Ontario / Bibliography : history of North-Eastern Ontario, Sudbury (Ontario), Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario, 112 p. ()

Awards and recognition

*2013 – Member of the

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*2012 – A high school in

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is named after him as

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. *2005 – Award of Merit Horace-Viau *1994 – Franco-Ontarian Order of Merit by the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario, ACFO (now Ontario Francophonie Assembly, AFO)

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