Fernand Ouellet

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Fernand Ouellet

educator
.

Biography

He was educated at

PhD in 1965. Ouellet taught at Université Laval, Carleton University, and the University of Ottawa in 1961–1985, prior to joining the History Department at York University
in 1986.

Throughout his career, he used techniques imported from

Quebec sovereignty movement. Trudeau and Ouellet intellectually influenced each other in their respective texts, though they never formed a personal and emotional friendship.[4]

He died on 28 June 2021 in Toronto, aged 94.[5] Married to Thérèse Roy, he had three children and four grandchildren.

Awards

Ouellet received numerous prizes, awards, and honours, including the

Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1977, the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 1977, and others. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
, serving as honorary secretary from 1977 to 1980.

Ouellet served as president of the Canadian Historical Association in 1970, and was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1979. He was also the editor of Histoire Sociale (Social History) from 1971 to 1988. Ouellet is the author of several works on the history of nineteenth-century French Canada, including Histoire économique et sociale du Québec, 1760–1850, published 1966, Le Bas-Canada, 1791–1840, and Louis Joseph Papineau, un être divisé, published 1960.

Further reading

  • Rudin, Ronald. "Ouellet, Fernand." in Kelly Boyd, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, vol. 2. Taylor & Francis. pp. 896–97.
    ISBN 9781884964336
    .
  • Fernand Ouellet entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia

References

  1. ^ Ronald Rudin, Making History in Twentieth Century Quebec (1997)
  2. ISBN 9781884964336
    .
  3. ^ "FERNAND OUELLET". Toronto Star. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  4. ISBN 9782764627365
    .
  5. ^ Bordeleau, Jean-Louis (6 July 2021). "Décès de Fernand Ouellet, un historien à la fois «adulé» et «honni»". Le Devoir. Retrieved 12 June 2022.


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