Amédée Gosselin

Who was Amédée Gosselin?

Amédée Gosselin was a Canadian historian, academic administrator and Roman Catholic priest.

Born in Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Canada East, he studied the classical course and theology from 1878 until 1890 at the Petit Séminaire de Québec and the Grand Séminaire de Québec, and was subsequently ordained as a priest.

He taught Canadian history and rhetoric. His principal work was L'Instruction au Canada sous le Régime français, which won him the Verret Prize. He was the seminary's archivist, and became superior of the institution and rector of Université Laval from 1909 until 1915 and from 1927 until 1929.

He was an organizer of the Congrès de la langue française and a member of the Société du parler français. He often published articles in the Bulletin des recherches historiques, a historical journal. On December 20, 1941, he died in Quebec City.