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R. P. (Pierre Jean Baptiste) Duchaussois
1878–1940
A French Oblate missionary and writer, he turned his years in Canada into vivid books about the people, landscapes, and Catholic missions of the North. His work helped bring the Arctic and subarctic world to French readers in the early 20th century.
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Aux glaces polaires: Indiens et esquimaux
by R. P. (Pierre Jean Baptiste) Duchaussois
About the author
Born in Walincourt, France, on August 4, 1878, Pierre Jean-Baptiste Duchaussois became a member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and was ordained in 1903. He was then sent to Canada, where he worked in religious education and later served in Edmonton.
Duchaussois is best remembered as a missionary writer. Sources describe him as a doctor of letters who was asked to write about the Canadian North, and his travels through northern regions informed books such as Aux glaces polaires and other works on Catholic missions, Indigenous peoples, and religious life in Canada.
He died in Nice, France, on November 9, 1940. Today, he is remembered both as a missionary and as an author whose books offered French readers a dramatic window into the Arctic, the subarctic, and the history of the Oblate missions.