Champlain Marcil

Champlain Marcil (1920–2010) was a French Canadian photojournalist best known for being the photographer of the daily newspaper Le Droit from 1948 to 1969.[1][2] In addition, he was active from 1940 to 1985 in depicting the Outaouais region of western Quebec and Ontario.

Champlain Marcil in 1945.

Personal life

Marcil was born in Ottawa in June, 1920. He married in 1947, and had five children. He died in 2010 and is interred in Notre-Dame Cemetery in Ottawa. He was a life member of the University of Ottawa, and a member of various Christian organizations.[3]

Career

He began his career as a professional photographer in 1940, recording the Eucharistic Congress at Trois-Rivières.[4] In 1947, he shot the Ottawa Marian Congress and became a freelancer for Le Droit, becoming a permanent contributor from 1954 to 1969.[4] At the same time, he was class photographer for 125 schools in the Hawkesbury - Ottawa area.[5]

The Champlain Marcil archives contains 135,425 photographs and is preserved in the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (National Library and Archives of Québec) in Gatineau.[6]

References
  1. Philippe Orfali (2010-04-06). "Décès du photographe Champlain Marcil" [Death of Photographer Champlain Marcil] (in French). Le Droit. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  2. Philippe Orfali. "La photo de presse se transforme" [The Transformation of Press Photography] (in French). Le Droit. Archived from the original on 2015-07-26. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
  3. "Champlain Marcil, nécrologie" [Obituary of Champlain Marcil]. Fédération québécoise des sociétés de généalogie (Quebec Genealogical Society Federation) (in French). 2010-04-06. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  4. Fonds d'archives Champlain Marcil - BAnQ Gatineau
  5. "Les photographes du Droit : Au-delà des mots, il y a l'image" [Photographs from Le Droit: Beyond Words, Is the Image] (in French). Le Droit. 2003-03-27. ISSN 0839-4865. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  6. (in French) Fonds d'archives Champlain Marcil - BAnQ Gatineau


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