Joseph Gauvreau

Joseph Gauvreau (1870-1943), Doctor, hygienist and Canadian Journalist (Québécois). It was one of the founders of the Ligue of the rights of French.

Born with Rimouski, it practices the Médecine in its birthplace until it must give up the profession following an accident which it constrained to be made cut down a front armlever. It settles then with Montreal, launches out in journalism and becomes lecturer. Defender of the Tradition, of the Valeur S family be, of the return to the ground and of the Religion, its interventions fit in the wake of the current Clérico-nationalist. Its conferences relate in particular to the fight against the alcohol and the Cinéma, the Abstinence, the Infant mortality (prone very discussed at the time, in particular by the collaborators of the French Action of Lionel Groulx) and especially the Hygiénisme of which it was one of the principal representatives at the time.

Defender of the rights of the Canadian-French in America, it was one of the founders and general secretary of the Ligue of the Rights of the French of Montreal. He contributed regularly with the Medical Union of Canada. Gauvreau was, moreover, vice-president of the Société Saint-Jean-Baptist of Montreal and the first president of the Popular Social École of Montreal; it was also one of the first members of the medical office of the Institut Bruchési. He was a famous lecturer and a propagandist intransigent hygienist; one owes him several medical social hygiene and popularizing works.

Gauvrau was Lauréat of the Prix of history David in 1926. The same year it was created knight of the Ordre of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pie XI, and it took for currency on its blazon: " Sobrietatis amicus, fidelis in cruce " (" Friend of temperance, faithful in the épreuve").

Reference

Raphaël Ouimet (ED.), French Canadian Biographies , 13th ED., Montreal, 1937, p. 381.

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