Placide Gaudet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Placide Gaudet

Canadian historian

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1850

Place of Birth: Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

Date of Death: 09-Nov-1930

Profession: historian

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Placide Gaudet

  • Placide Gaudet (November 19, 1850 – November 9, 1930) was a Canadian historian, educator, genealogist and journalist.
  • He signed his name as Placide P.
  • Gaudet.
  • Gaudet is noted for his research into the history and genealogy of the Acadian people and played an important role in the preservation of their history.He was born at Cap-PelĂ©, New Brunswick, the son of Placide Gaudet and Marie Vienneau dit Michaud.
  • Gaudet's father died shortly before his birth and his mother returned to her father's farm.
  • She moved to her father-in-law's farm in Dorchester in 1862.
  • Gaudet was educated at St.
  • Joseph's College in Memramcook.
  • He began studies for the priesthood at the Grand SĂ©minaire de MontrĂ©al but left in 1874 due to poor health, returning to New Brunswick.
  • He then took on a number of short term teaching positions.
  • From 1883 to 1885, he was given a contract by the Canadian archives to copy church archives in Acadian areas, supplementing his income by teaching.
  • Gaudet worked for several newspapers including the Courrier des provinces Maritimes, Le Moniteur acadien and L'ÉvangĂ©line.
  • In 1890, Gaudet married Marie-Rose Arsenault.
  • He taught at the Collège Sainte-Anne from 1895 until the college was destroyed in a fire in 1899.
  • Later in 1899, he was hired by the Canadian archives to copy Acadian parish archives from Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.
  • In 1906, Gaudet published Report concerning Canadian archives for the year 1905, a genealogy of Acadian families.
  • As a result of his work and his own private research into local history, he became a noted authority and speaker on Acadian genealogy and history.
  • Gaudet published Le grand dĂ©rangement in 1922.
  • He retired on a small pension in 1924, moving to Moncton.
  • Gaudet died at a hospice in Shediac at the age of 79.

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