Gaétan Gervais

Gaétan Gervais, CM (August 10, 1944 – October 20, 2018)^[2][3] 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,^[4] and was a founding member of the Franco-Ontarian Institute.^[5]

Gaétan Gervais CM
Gaétan Gervais in 2014
Born	(1944-08-10)August 10, 1944 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Died	October 20, 2018(2018-10-20) (aged 74) Sudbury, Ontario, Canada[1]
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation(s)	historian, author, flag designer
Known for	Co-creator of the Franco-Ontarian flag
Notable work	Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français : 1613–1993

Biography

Born in August 10, 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. (ISBN 978-2-7603-0757-5)
• 2003 – Des gens de résolution : le passage du Canada français à l'Ontario français, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 230 p. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3159-3)
• 2000 – Les jumelles Dionne et l'Ontario français, 1934–1944, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 246 p. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3117-3), 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. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3159-3)

Awards and recognition

• 2013 – Member of the Order of Canada^[6]
• 2012 – A high school in Oakville, Ontario is named after him as Gaétan-Gervais Secondary School.^[7]
• 2005 – Award of Merit Horace-Viau^[8]
• 1994 – Franco-Ontarian Order of Merit by the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario, ACFO (now Ontario Francophonie Assembly, AFO)