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N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
1848–1917
A busy man of letters in Quebec, he moved easily between medicine, journalism, librarianship, and history. He is best remembered for lively historical works on figures such as Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, along with major bibliographic work on Quebec’s printed past.
2 Audiobooks
Le parler populaire des Canadiens français ou, Lexique des canadianismes, acadianismes, anglicismes, américanismes, mots anglais les plus en usage au sein des familles canadiennes et acadiennes françaises
by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
The Makers of Canada: Champlain
by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
About the author
Born in Lower Canada in 1848, Narcisse-Eutrope Dionne built an unusually wide-ranging career as a physician, journalist, historian, linguist, and librarian. He studied medicine at Université Laval, practiced as a doctor, and at the same time developed a lasting commitment to research and writing about French Canadian history.
His historical books helped bring early Canadian figures and events to a broad readership. Sources consistently point to his studies of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain among his best-known works, and they also note his importance as a bibliographer. His multi-volume Inventaire chronologique became a valuable reference for books, pamphlets, maps, and periodicals relating to Quebec.
Dionne spent many years working in libraries and literary circles in Quebec City, where his scholarship and public writing reinforced each other. By the time of his death in 1917, he had established a reputation as one of Quebec’s notable scholar-writers: a man interested not only in telling history, but also in preserving the record that made it possible.