Annette Saint-Pierre, CM (born 29 August 1925) is a Canadian educator, writer and publisher. [1]
She was born in Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Quebec on 29 August 1925. [2] She was educated at the Scolasticat Saint—Joseph in Saint-Hyacinthe and the University of Ottawa. Between 1950 and 1970, Saint-Pierre taught elementary and high school in Manitoba. In 1970, she became a professor of Canadian literature at Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface and initiated the first university level course in Canadian literature in western Canada. [1]
In 1978, Saint-Pierre was a founding member of the Centre d'études Franco-canadiennes de l'Ouest. In 1984, she was a director for the Regroupement des centres d'études au Canada. She was also a founding member of the first two Franco-Manitoban publishing houses, Éditions du Blé and Éditions des Plaines. [1]
Saint-Pierre played a crucial role in preserving the birthplace of Gabrielle Roy, now a museum. [3] In 2004, she was named to the Order of Canada. [4]
Gabrielle Roy was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature.
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term encompasses the arts, literature, institutions and traditions created by Québécois, as well as the collective beliefs, values and lifestyle of Québécois. It is a culture of the Western World.
This is an article about literature in Quebec.
The Université de Saint-Boniface (USB) is a French-language public university located in the Saint Boniface neighbourhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. An affiliated institution of the University of Manitoba, the university offers general and specialized university degree programs as well as technical and professional training. In 2014, 1,368 regular students were enrolled. Its Continuing Education Division, which includes a language school, has also counted over 4,200 enrolments.
St-Boniface is a city ward and neighbourhood in Winnipeg. Along with being the centre of the Franco-Manitoban community, it ranks as the largest francophone community in Western Canada.
Le Cercle Molière is a theatre company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The Franco-Manitoban School Division is a school division in Manitoba, Canada offering French-language education to its students. The right to French education was gained through Section 23 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Division was formed in 1994, following court challenges that established the rights of minority-language groups in Canada to separate education systems.
Camille Roy was a Canadian priest and literary critic. He wrote extensively about the development of French-Canadian literature, and its importance in the promotion of French language and culture and of Christian ideals.
Simon Harel is a Canadian intellectual. In addition to being a prolific writer and speaker and an adjunct professor at the Département d'études littéraires of the Université du Québec à Montréal, he is full professor at and Director of the Département de littérature comparée of the University of Montreal.
Geneviève Hasenohr is a French philologist and prolific scholar of medieval and Renaissance French literature. She has authored or contributed to more than forty books, written at least fifty academic articles and reviews, and prepared numerous scholarly editions.
Jeanne Lapointe was a Canadian academic and intellectual.
Laurent Poliquin is a Franco-Manitoban poet, educator and a community activist. He is a member of the Green Party of Canada.
Lori Saint-Martin was a Canadian author and literary translator. Her first novel, Les Portes closes, came out in 2013. Working with her husband Paul Gagné, she translated over seventy English language books into French, including the works of such authors as Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, and Naomi Klein.
André Brochu (born 3 March 1942 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec) is a poet, essayist and professor of Quebecois literature.
Benoît Lacroix was a Quebec theologian, philosopher, Dominican priest, professor in medieval studies and historian of the Medieval period, and author of almost 50 works and a great number of articles.
Pauline Boutal C.M. was a French-born Canadian artist, theatrical designer, actress and educator.
Eugène Le Roy was a French author.
Hédi Kaddour is a French poet and novelist.
Eugénie Droz was a Swiss romance scholar, editor publisher and writer, originally from the Suisse Romande. She created the Librairie Droz, a publisher and seller of academic books, at Paris in 1924, moving the business to Geneva at the end of the war.
Pierre Vernet was a Haitian linguist and lexicographer, who created the Center for Applied Linguistics in Port-au-Prince. He was instrumental in standardizing Haitian Creole (Krèyol) spelling as an aid to literacy, and the elaboration of French-Krèyol lexicons of terminology. He also published dictionaries with Alain Bentolila and with Bryant Freeman.