George William Albert Chapman, né George William Alphred (13 December 1850 – 23 February 1917), was a Canadian poet.
William Chapman | |
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Born | George William Alphred Chapman December 13, 1850 Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada |
Died | February 23, 1917 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | (aged 66)
Resting place | Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery |
Genre | Poetry |
Chapman was born at Saint-François-de-Beauce, Quebec (today's Beauceville), and was educated at Levis College in 1862-1867.[1] 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 journalist in Quebec City and Montreal; but in 1902 became a French translator for the Dominion Senate and removed to Ottawa, Ontario.
After his death in 1917, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[2]
Selected bibliography edit
- 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 Académie française
- Les Rayons du Nord (1910), which also gained the highest prize of the Académie française
- Les Fleurs de givre (1912)
References edit
- ^ Manon Brunet. "CHAPMAN, WILLIAM".
- ^ Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French). Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
- W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 191.
External links edit
- Works by or about William Chapman at Internet Archive
- Works by William Chapman at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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