William Chapman (poet)

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 in 1862-1867. 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, Ontario.

After his death in 1917, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.

Selected bibliography

 * Les Québécoises (1876)
 * Mines d'or de la Beauce (1881)
 * Guide et souvenir de la St-Jean-Baptiste (1884), Montréal
 * Les Feuilles d'érable (1890)
 * Le lauréat (1894)
 * Les deux Copains (1894)
 * Les aspirations : poésies canadiennes (1904), which received the highest prize of the Académie française
 * Les Rayons du Nord (1910), which also gained the highest prize of the Académie française
 * Les Fleurs de givre (1912)