Gaétan Gervais Explained

Gaétan Gervais
Birth Date:	10 August 1944
Birth Place:	Sudbury, Ontario
Nationality:	Canadian
Occupation:	historian, author, flag designer
Known For:	Co-creator of the Franco-Ontarian flag
Notable Works:	Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français : 1613–1993

Gaétan Gervais, (August 10, 1944 – October 20, 2018)^{[1] [2]} was a Canadian author, historian and university professor, most noted as a prominent figure in Franco-Ontarian culture. With a group of university students at Laurentian University, he designed the Franco-Ontarian flag,^[3] and was a founding member of the Franco-Ontarian Institute.^[4]

Biography

Born in 1944 in Sudbury, Ontario, Gervais graduated from Laurentian University in 1965. He also obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Ottawa 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 Order of Canada^[5]
• 2012 – A high school in Oakville, Ontario is named after him as Gaétan-Gervais Secondary School.^[6]
• 2005 – Award of Merit Horace-Viau^[7]
• 1994 – Franco-Ontarian Order of Merit by the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario, ACFO (now Ontario Francophonie Assembly, AFO)

External links

• Work and publications at Laurentian University (pre-2004)
• Work and publications at Laurentian University (post-2004)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gaétan Gervais et l'expérience historique de l'Ontario français. L'Express. François-Olivier Dorais. 30 January 2017. 19 October 2018.
2. Web site: Mort de Gaétan Gervais, l'historien de l'Ontario français et cocréateur du drapeau franco-ontarien. Ici Radio-Canada. 20 October 2018. 20 October 2018.
3. Web site: Notre drapeau franco-ontarien par Gaétan Gervais. MonDrapeauFranco.ca. Jean-Yves Pelletier. 27 March 2006.
4. Web site: Gaétan Gervais reçoit le prix du Mérite Horace-Viau. 18 March 2005. Société Radio-Canada.
5. Web site: Gaétan Gervais nommé membre de l'Ordre du Canada. Radio-Canada. 28 June 2013.
6. Web site: Les élèves d'Oakville fréquentent désormais l'École élémentaire du Chêne et l'École secondaire Gaétan Gervais. https://archive.today/20120730213525/http://www.csviamonde.ca/csviamonde/index.php?q=node/2698. dead. 30 July 2012. Conseil Scolaire Viamonde. 30 January 2012.
7. Web site: Le père du drapeau franco-ontarien honoré. 23 March 2005. Jean-François Fecteau. Francopresse.ca. 23 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024446/http://francopresse.ca/index.cfm?Sequence_No=25131&Id=25131&Repertoire_No=1151936421&Voir=document_view. 4 March 2016. dead.