Gaétan Gervais

Gaétan Gervais, (August 10, 1944 – October 20, 2018) was a Canadian author, historian and university professor, most noted as a prominent figure in Franco-Ontarian culture. With a group of university students at Laurentian University, he designed the Franco-Ontarian flag, and was a founding member of the Franco-Ontarian Institute.

Biography
Born in 1944 in Sudbury, Ontario, Gervais graduated from Laurentian University in 1965. He also obtained a master's degree and a doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 1968 and 1979. From 1972, he was a professor at Laurentian University.

Publications

 * 2010 – Avec Jean-Pierre Pichette (dir.), Dictionnaire des écrits de l'Ontario français : 1613–1993, Ottawa, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 1097 p. (ISBN 978-2-7603-0757-5)
 * 2003 – Des gens de résolution : le passage du Canada français à l'Ontario français, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 230 p. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3159-3)
 * 2000 – Les jumelles Dionne et l'Ontario français, 1934–1944, Sudbury (Ontario), Éditions Prise de parole, 246 p. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3117-3), Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen
 * 1985 – Bibliographie : histoire du nord-est de l'Ontario / Bibliography : history of North-Eastern Ontario, Sudbury (Ontario), Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario, 112 p. (ISBN 978-2-8942-3159-3)

Awards and recognition

 * 2013 – Member of the Order of Canada
 * 2012 – A high school in Oakville, Ontario is named after him as Gaétan-Gervais Secondary School.
 * 2005 – Award of Merit Horace-Viau
 * 1994 – Franco-Ontarian Order of Merit by the Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario, ACFO (now Ontario Francophonie Assembly, AFO)