Éraste d'Odet d'Orsonnens
Mayor of Hull, Quebec
In office
1889–1890
Personal details
BornApril 11, 1836
Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada
DiedDecember 24, 1906
Hull, Quebec

Éraste d'Odet d'Orsonnens (April 11, 1836[1] – December 24, 1906[2]) was a notary, author and politician in Quebec. He served as mayor of Hull from 1889 to 1890. His name also appears as Jean-Éraste[3] and Jean Protais Eraste.[4]

The son of Colonel Protais d'Odet d'Orsonnens and Louise-Sophie Rocher,[3] he was born in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada, and was educated at L'Assomption and at the Jesuit college in Montreal. He went on to study law and was licensed as a notary at the age of 22. D'Orsonnens practised his profession in Montreal, Warwick and Hull. In 1875, he married Marie-Louise Fiset. D'Orsonnens was also a commissioner of the Superior Court of Quebec and chair of the Hull school board. Around the age of 50, he retired from practice as a notary to pursue his developing business.[1] He served on Hull municipal council from 1877 to 1886[4] and from 1890 to 1891.[3]

He published:

  • Felluna, la vierge iroquoise ; Une épluchette de blé-d'inde ; Une résurrection (1856)[5] which is described as the first collection of stories published in Lower Canada[6]
  • Une apparition : épisode de l'émigration irlandaise au Canada (1860)[7]
  • Le moteur centripète (1899)[8]

Rue D'Orsonnens in Hull, now part of Gatineau, was named in his honour.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Cochrane, William. The Canadian Album. Vol. 5. Рипол Классик. p. 257. ISBN 9785882975103.
  2. ↑ "Registres de l'état civil de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Hull" (in French). Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. 1906. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Jean Protais Eraste d'Odet d'Orsonnens". Répertoire des élus municipaux de l'Outaouais de 1845 à 1975 (in French). Archives nationales du Québec.
  4. 1 2 "Jean-Éraste-D'Odet D'Orsonnens". Répertoire des élus municipaux de l'Outaouais de 1845 à 1975 (in French). Archives nationales du Québec.
  5. ↑ D'Odet d'Orsonnens, Éraste (1856). Felluna, la vierge iroquoise. Montreal.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ↑ Lemire, Maurice (1996). La vie littéraire au Québec (in French). Vol. 3. Presses Université Laval. p. 556. ISBN 2763774059.
  7. ↑ D'Odet d'Orsonnens, Éraste (1860). Une apparition : épisode de l'émigration irlandaise au Canada.
  8. ↑ D'Odet d'Orsonnens, Éraste (1899). Le moteur centripète. Ottawa.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ↑ "Rue D'Orsonnens" (in French). Commission de toponymie Québec.


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