William Chapman (poet)

William Chapman

Born	George William Alphred Chapman December 13, 1850(1850-12-13) Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada
Died	February 23, 1917(1917-02-23) (aged 66) Ottawa, Ontario
Genres	Poetry

George William Albert Chapman, né George William Alphred (13 December 1850 – 23 February 1917), was a Canadian poet.

Chapman was born at Saint-François-de-Beauce, Quebec (today's Beauceville), and was educated at Levis College. He studied law, afterward engaged in commercial pursuits, and later entered the civil service of the Province of Quebec. Chapman worked for some time as a journalist in Quebec City and Montreal; but in 1902 became a French translator for the Dominion Senate and removed to Ottawa.

Selected bibliography

Les Québécoise (1876)
Les laureat (1894)
Les deux Copains (1894)
Les aspirations (1904), which received the highest prize of the Académie française
Les Royons du Nord (1910), which also gained the highest prize of the Académie française

References

W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 191.

External links

Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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Name	Chapman, William
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Date of birth	13 December 1850
Place of birth	Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada
Date of death	23 February 1917
Place of death	Ottawa, Ontario