Crémazie, Octave

(1827-1879). His life a peculiarly sad one. Having made a failure of his busine as a bookseller in Quebec, went to France, and died there in poverty. One of the founders of the Institut Canadien of Quebec; and contributed for some years to the Soirées Canadiennes and other periodicals. His poetical works published, 1882, under the patronage of the Institut Canadien , with an introduction by Abbé Casgrain. Bib. : [OE]uvres Complètes , Montreal, 1882. For biog., see Casgrain, Biog. ; Gagnon, Quelques Notes sur O. Crémazie in Revue Canadienne , vol. 49; also articles in same review by Abbé Casgrain (vol. 31); and by Abbé Degagné (vol. 30).