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William Chapman (poet)

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

Chapman was born at Saint-François-de-Beauce, Quebec (today's Beauceville), 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 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.

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 Académie française
  • 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.

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