Moïsette Olier
Born
Corinne P. Beauchemin

(1885-09-30)September 30, 1885
Forges du Saint-Maurice, Trois-Rivières, Quebec
DiedJune 17, 1972(1972-06-17) (aged 86)
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter
Spouse
Joseph Garceau
​
(m. 1929)​

Corinne P. Beauchemin (September 30, 1885 – June 17, 1972), known better by her pen name, Moïsette Olier was a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Biography

Corinne P. Beauchemin was born in Forges du Saint-Maurice, September 30, 1885.[1]

Olier was a contributor to various newspapers including, Le Bien public, Le Nouvelliste, and Le Mauricien.[2] Her work contributed to the regionalist literary stream,[3][4] favored in particular by the tricentennial of the founding of Trois-Rivières. In 1934, the Trois-Rivières region went through a period of "literary renaissance".[5]

Olier lived in Shawinigan. In 1929, she married Joseph Garceau, who was the first doctor in that city. In 1944, she moved to Montreal.[1]

She chose the pseudonym, "Moïsette Olier", in reference to the name of her great-grandfather, Moses Olier.[1] She died on June 17, 1972.[1]

Honors

  • Moïsette-Olier Street, Shawinigan, named in 1976.
  • Moïsette-Olier Bay, a bay of Saint-Maurice, named in 1982.

Selected works

  • L'Homme à la Physionomie macabre, Éditions Édouard Garand, 1927
  • "Le St-Maurice", in Au pays de l’énergie, 1932
  • Cha8inigane, 1934
  • Mademoiselle Sérénité, 1936
  • Cendres,
  • Étincelles, 1936

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Suzanne Lafrenière, Moïsette Olier, "femme de lettres de la Mauricie", éditions Asticou, Hull, 1980. Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan. (in French)
  2. ↑ Réginald Hamel, John Hare et Paul Wyczynski, Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord, Montréal, Fides, 1989, (ISBN 2-7621-1475-6) and (ISBN 978-2-7621-1475-1), p. 1034. (in French)
  3. ↑ René Hardy, Normand Séguin and others, Histoire de la Mauricie, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, 2004, (ISBN 2-89224-331-9), p. 816-817. (in French)
  4. ↑ René Verrette, "Le régionalisme mauricien des années trente [archive]", Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française, vol. 47, no 1, 1993, p. 45. (in French)
  5. ↑ Marcel Olscamp, "Émergence d’une institution littéraire : l’exemple de Trois-Rivières", University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 70, no 3, 2001, p. 699. (in French)

Bibliography

  • Carole Lamothe, La femme et l'amour dans l'œuvre romanesque de Moïsette Olier, thesis, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 1981, published in 1983 (in French)
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