Date Published:
June 2005

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

Stanislaus Drapeau

Drapeau, Stanislaus (1821-1893), journalist and author, was born at St. Roch, near Quebec, Lower Canada, on July 28, 1821. He was educated at the Quebec Seminary, and in 1837 was apprenticed to a printer. From printing he graduated into journalism, and in 1859 he entered the civil service of Canada. He died at Pointe Gatineau, on the Ottawa river , on February 21, 1893. He was the author of Etudes sur les développements de la colonisation du Bas-Canada depuis dix ans (Quebec, 1863), Histoire des institutions de charité, de bienfaisance, et d'éducation du Canada (Ottawa, 1878), Biographie de Sir N. F. Belleau (Quebec, 1883), Canada: Le guide de colon (Ottawa, 1888), and a number of pamphlets. Three of these dealt with the question of the burial place of Champlain, Observations sur la brochure de MM. les abbés Laverdière et Casgrain, relativement à la découverte du tombeau de Champlain (Quebec, 1866), Le Journal de Québec et le tombeau de Champlain (Quebec, 1867), and Notes et éclaircissements: La question du tombeau de Champlain (Ottawa, 1880).

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 235.