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Georgette Lamoureux, Histoire d'Ottawa tome 1-5 1826-1950 (Title: Bytown et ses pionniers canadiens-français

• Title	Georgette Lamoureux, Histoire d'Ottawa tome 1-5 1826-1950 (Title: Bytown et ses pionniers canadiens-français
  Short Title	Georgette Lamoureux Tome 1-5
  Repository	Ottawa Public Library
  Source ID	S3367
  Linked to (41)	François Amyot François-Xavier Arsenault Eugénie Anita Ninette Aubry Elisabeth Bachant Adélaide Besner Jane Cummings Jeanne Girard Blanche Guibord Marguerite Guindon Aline Hurteau David Hurteau Charles Lacelle François-Xavier Lacelle Adéline Laplante Champagne Lapointe Lapointe Émery Lapointe Frederick Lapointe J. H. Lapointe Moise Lapointe Moise Lapointe [More individuals] Family: Thomas Payment / Marie-Louise Chevrier Family: Moise Lapointe / Malvina Roy Family: Luc Major / Emélie Masson Family: Sylvain Joseph Major / Corine Marie Lebel Family: Charles Michaud / Aline Hurteau Family: Achille McNichol / Blanche C. Coté Family: Archibald McNichol / Joséphine Boivin Family: René McNicoll / Berthe M. R. Renaud Family: Arthur Perrin / Caroline Monette Family: Paul Monette / Adéline Laplante Champagne Family: René McNicoll / Thérèse Duhaime Family: Ascanio Major / Corine Parent Family: Charles Lacelle / Marguerite Monette Family: Bruno Levaque / Mme Bruno Levaque Family: Lapointe / Family: Roland McNichol / Jeanne Girard Family: Léon McNichol / Berthe Racine Family: Pierre Samson / Denise McNichol Family: David Hurteau / Rose Tremblay Family: François-Xavier Arsenault / Adélaide Besner [More families]

  
  

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  GEORGETTE LAMOUREUX, CIVIL SERVANT, AUTHOR AND HISTORIAN Born in Ottawa on 30 October 1910, Georgette Lamoureux studied at the Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur Boarding School (Rideau Street convent), run by the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa. Secretary and information officer with the Department of External Affairs from 1945 to 1964, she worked at the Canadian legation in Cuba and the Canadian embassies in Chile, France, Austria and Japan. She participated in the founding of the Société des écrivains canadiens (Canadian Writers Society) and was active in several organizations, such as: the Société d'histoire et de généalogie d'Ottawa (Ottawa Historical and Genealogical Society), L'Alliance française d'Ottawa, L'Association française des écrivains d'outre-mer, the Cercle des femmes journalistes (Female Journalists Circle) and the Bytown Museum. From 1973 to 1975, she was director general of La Société d'étude et de conférences (Ottawa branch). She published Visage de la Havane (1962), Visage du Japon (1969), Bytown et ses pionnierrs canadiens-français (Tome 1, 1978), Ottawa 1855-1876 et sa population canadienne-française (Tome 2, 1980), Histoire d'Ottawa - Ottawa et sa population canadienne-française, 1876-1899 (Tome 3, 1982), Ottawa et sa population canadienne-française, 1900-1926 (Tome 4, 1984) and Ottawa et sa population canadienne-française, 1926-1950 (Tome 5, 1989). In recognition for her books and her articles in Le Droit, she received the Lescarbot Award (1992), the Prix Docteur J.-Émile-Major (1990), the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton Literary Award (1983) and the Historical Society of Ottawa Award. Georgette Lamoureux died in Ottawa on 28 July 1995 at the age of 84.