Date Published:
April 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

François Daniel

Daniel, François (1820-1908), priest and author, was born in Normandy, France, on September 6, 1820. He entered the Sulpician Seminary in Paris in 1844, and in 1847 he was ordained a priest and sent to the Sulpician Seminary in Montreal. Here he remained until his death at Montreal on February 20, 1908. He was the anonymous author of Le vrai canadien, ou Notice sur M. J.-B. Bruyère de Montréal (Montreal, 1859), Une page de notre histoire (Montreal, 1865), Notice sur la famine Guy (Montreal, 1867), Le Vicomte C. de Léry (Montreal, 1867), and Histoire des grandes familles françaises du Canada (Montreal, 1867), the last of which was republished in 1867 under the titles Les français de l'Amérique du Nord and Nos gloires nationales.

Source  : W. Stewart Wallace, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 178.