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- Joseph Légaré (March 10, 1795 - June 21, 1855) was a painter and glazier, artist, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada. Légaré painted a number of works depicting the "customs of North American Indians".However, some of his more memorable works include: First Monastery of the Ursulines at Quebec, Memorials of the Jesuits of New France, The Martyrdom of Brothers Brebeuf and Lalement and The Battle of Sainte-Foy.
- Wilfrid Laurier was born on 20 November 1841 in St. Lin, Québec, Canada. He was married to Zoe Lafontaine. He died on 17 February 1919 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Soundtrack
Calixa Lavallée was born on 28 December 1842 in Verchères, Quebec, Canada. Calixa died on 21 January 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.- André Bessette was born on 9 August 1845 in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, Canada. He died on 6 January 1937 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Fred Hallen was born on 1 January 1858 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Scrub Lady (1917). He was married to Mollie Fuller and Enid Hart. He died on 27 February 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Charles J. Ross was born on 18 February 1859 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Death of Nancy Sykes (1897), The Senator (1915) and The Great Diamond Robbery (1914). He was married to Mabel Fenton. He died on 15 June 1918 in North Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.
- Actress
- Writer
Louise Beaudet was born on 5 December 1859 in Lotbinere, Québec, Canada. She was an actress and writer, known for The Goddess (1915), The Gold Diggers (1923) and The Man Behind the Door (1914). She died on 31 December 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
- Writer
- Visual Effects
Dark Cloud was born on 20 September 1861 in St. Francis Indian Village, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for What Am I Bid? (1919), The Dishonored Medal (1914) and The Woman Untamed (1920). He was married to Margaret Camp. He died on 17 October 1918 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edward E. Rose was born on 11 February 1862 in Stanstead, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Murder in the Private Car (1934), The Rosary (1915) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). He was married to Dorothy Stanton (actress). He died on 2 April 1939 in Fremont, Wisconsin, USA.
- W.S. McDunnough was born on 15 December 1863 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Afraid to Fight (1922) and Those Who Dance (1924). He died on 1 July 1942 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Actress
Susanne Leach was born on 17 August 1865 in Brompton, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress. She died on 16 August 1945 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was born on 5 March 1867 in Québec, Québec, Canada. He was married to Adine Dionne. He died on 6 July 1952 in Québec, Québec, Canada.
- Cinematographer
- Executive
Fred Held was born on 12 June 1867 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Fred was a cinematographer and executive, known for The Glory of Yolanda (1917), The Girl in His House (1918) and An American Live Wire (1918). Fred died on 5 January 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Began as an actor, then as director and producer at the Suburban Garden Theatre in St. Louis, then at the Academy of Music in New York, where he was hired by William Fox to direct films in 1914. He directed 22 films starring Theda Bara, who called him "the nicest director I ever worked with." His grandson is the director Blake Edwards.- Henri Bourassa was born on 1 September 1868 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was married to Joséphine Papineau . He died on 31 August 1952 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Robert Hobart Davis was born on 23 March 1869 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Robert Hobart was a writer, known for The Bugler of Algiers (1916), Love and Glory (1924) and The Miracle Man (1932). Robert Hobart was married to Madge Lee Hutchinson. Robert Hobart died on 11 October 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Born in Montreal, Canada, Frederick A. Thomson--not to be confused with cowboy star Fred Thomson--had a 20-year career on the stage as an actor and producer before entering the film industry. He was a longtime director at Vitagraph, although he would occasionally appear in the studio's films as an actor. He directed his last film in 1921, and after appearing in A Tailor-Made Man (1922) for United Artists in 1922, he left the business.
He died in Hollywood of heart problems in 1925. He was 55.- Eugene Redding was born on 20 May 1870 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Red Widow (1916), The Strategy of Conductor 786 (1914) and A Circus Romance (1914). He was married to Eleanor Sydney. He died in April 1937 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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- Director
- Writer
Raoul Barre was born on 29 January 1874 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Cartoons in the Hotel (1915), Cartoons in the Parlor (1915) and The Animated Grouch Chaser (1915). He was married to Antoinette. He died on 21 May 1932 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.- J. Robert Pauline was born on 11 June 1874 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Mystery Mind (1920). He died on 11 November 1942 in Rochester, New York, USA.
- Urbain J. Ledoux was born on 13 August 1874 in Ste Hélène de Bagot, Quebec, Canada. He was married to Mary Hall and Carmeline Pauschand. He died on 8 April 1941 in New York, New York, USA.
- Cinematographer
- Visual Effects
James A. Crosby was born on 7 April 1875 in Point Fortune, Québec, Canada. He was a cinematographer, known for The Last Egyptian (1914), Lorelei of the Sea (1917) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914). He died in August 1949 in Point Fortune, Québec, Canada.- Winifred Reeve was born on 21 August 1875 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is known for East Is West (1930), Undertow (1930) and The Mississippi Gambler (1929).
- Actor
- Director
- Manager
James Durkin was born on 21 May 1876 in Quebec, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Perils of Pauline (1933), Who Killed Simon Baird? (1916) and The Clarion (1916). He was married to Maude Fealy and Alice Naylor. He died on 12 March 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Canadian writer Frank L. Packard was born in Montreal, Canada, in 1877. His parents were Americans who moved to Canada. He graduated from McGill University in 1897 with a B.Sc., and the next year attended the University of Liege in Belgium for a post-graduate course. He returned to Canada later that year, moved to the US and got a job as a civil engineer.
He began his writing career in 1906, submitting stories to magazines. He had worked in maintenance shops for the Canadian Pacific Railroad, and had experience as an engraver, so many of his stories had a railroad setting. He also wrote a series of detective books using the characters Jimmie Dale and Shanghai Jim, and his Jimmie Dale series--about the adventures of a daring safecracker--sold more than 2,000,000 copies.
He died at his home in Lachine, Quebec, Canada, in 1942, leaving a wife and three sons. - Director
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Leo-Ernest Ouimet, the French Canadian film pioneer who built the first, first-rate movie cathedral that was the forerunner for all the huge North American movie palaces that came after it, was born in Laval, Quebec, north of Montreal, in 1877. Educated as an electrical engineer, he entered show business by chance in 1901, when Montreal's Le Theatre National contracted with the 24-year old engineer to rewire its theater. In just two days, Ouiment not only rewired the theater, but he installed a lighting system of his own devising that wowed the theater patrons and critics. Quebec City theater-owner Paul Cazeneuves hired him to do the same for his Le Cartier Theatre, and the results were even more astonishing.
The next step in Ouimet's metamorphosis into a movie pioneer was his engagement by Le Theatre National as a lighting designer. His acquaintance with the movies was about to begin, as Quebec law forbade Le Theatre National from operating on Sundays in any closed venue. To get around the provincial blue laws, Le Theatre performed in Montreal's Sohmers Park on Sundays. The park, which featured a 5,000-seat, open-air pavilion, began showing animated movies between intermissions in 1902. The park projectionist, an American yclept Ben Fenton, taught Ouimet about the projector, an Edison Co. kinetoscope. Intrigued, Ouiment soon bought one himself.
Ouiment became a representative for Edison for Eastern Canada, and subsequently, he opened up his own Ouimet Film Exchange to distribute films. His fascination with film encouraged him to make his own films, mostly short subjects, and by 1904, he had become an innovator in the world of cinema. During the Canadian general election in November 1904, he used his kinetoscope to project election returns onto a white sheet tacked to the front wall of the Montreal newspaper Le Patrie. He took the opportunity afforded by this all-day exhibition to recalibrate and fine-tune the kinetoscope to produce a better image.
He began traveling with his improved kinetoscope to give exhibitions of films, drawing large crowds, primarily from the working class, who could not afford the luxury of the legitimate theater or vaudeville. In 1906, Ouimet converted an abandoned cabaret on Ste.-Catherine St. into a 500-seat nickelodeon.
As movie theater impresario Marcus Loew had said, "We sell tickets to theaters, not movies." His Loew's Inc. own and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a subsidiary from its New York headquarters. Hundreds of movie theaters eventually were constructed in Canada in the period of 1910 through 1930, mostly in Ontario and Quebec.
Filmmaking was literally the tail that wound up wagging the dog, as in the early days of the cinema, most filmmakers got into the barely acknowledged "Seventh Art" as a means of ensuring product for their theaters. Due to the dominance of the Edison Patent Trust over cameras, projection equipment (the kinetoscope), and film stock, many a would-be movie entrepreneur had to resort to "inventing" their own equipment from extant models, and importing their film stock from overseas
Like the later innovation Technicolor, which tightly controlled the use of its product, mandating Technicolor consultants on films using its cameras and color stock ensure that the aesthetic results fell within the accepted corporate parameters, Edison too controlled the aesthetic use of his product. No film could be more than one reel, and the facility for projection equipment to throw a large picture was restricted, in order to keep the venues small.
Quebec native Ouimet was no different than the entrepreneurs outside the Edison Trust who made a go of it south of the border. He modified the kinetoscope that he had bought from Edison to improve its luminosity, and he improved the claw-mechanism for advancing film before the shutter to reduce its habit of damaging the negative. He also added a second shutter to reduce the optical glitch that gave rise to the early movies being called "flickers" by the anglophones. He so modified his original projector, he dubbed his "new" creation the Ouimetoscope, which he used to project film images on a larger screen than was possible before his transformation of Edison's contraption.
Many other pioneers in North America were doing the same, modifying Edison's kinetoscope or other projectors illegally imported from Europe, then making films and showing them with their bespoke equipment to crowds starved for entertainment. Where Ouimet bested the entrepreneurs in the lower 48 was in his ability to project a larger image while not sacrificing quality. This enabled him to build what was at the time the largest movie theater in the world.
Tearing down his old theater, Ouimet constructed a 1,200-seat cathedral of cinema he called, after his projector, the Ouimetoscope. He brought to Montreal the first movie theater constructed as lavishly as any first-rate, legitimate house. His mission was "to provide the best moving pictures and illustrated song exhibition that can be provided." The theater not only was huge, but it was air-conditioned, a first for a movie palace. The Ouimetoscope was opened on August 31, 1907.
According to Toronto film historian Hye Bossin in the 1950s, the Ouimet was the first movie showcase to challenge the legitimate theater by offering movie patrons first-class comfort and appointments at a reasonable price that the average citizen could afford. Bossin said that the Ouimetoscope theater was unique, as it was a testament to Ouimet's belief that the movies, as an art and as an industry, were not a fad, but were here to stay. Many entrepreneurs, like Loew, bought up old vaudeville houses in order to present their pictures, but they hedged their bets by continuing to offer live entertainment between shows. In fact, the process of offering live entertainment at the Loew's Inc. chain of 400 theaters lasted until Marcus Loew's death in 1927. Loew was never a gambler, and was unsure whether the movie boom would go bust, even after twenty years in the industry.
Ouimet was committed to a quality experience for his patrons, hiring the best musicians to accompany the silent films. He booked only the best movies, and carefully planned each showcase. Ouiment even published a program for his audience, akin to the show bills distributed at legitimate theaters. A Quebecker, Ouimet also was committed to the francophone cinema, bringing in pictures from France for his Montreal audience, and translating the inter-titles of English-language films into French. He was truly the father of Quebec cinema, an idealist as well as a business-cum-showman.
Increasingly, just like Canadian cinema today, Ouimet faced fierce competition from the studios in the U.S., who flooded the province with product. In addition, Ouimet had to face the economic backlash caused by a conservative Catholic clergy, who inveigled against movie-going on Sundays, and successfully lobbied the provincial government to ban Sunday-showings of films. It was an ordinance that lasted until the 1960s, when, after a social revolution that saw the dawn of French Canadian nationalism, as noted in Denis Arcand's Oscar-wining "The Barbarian Invasions" (2002), the good people of la belle province split with the church and its patrimony.
Worn out from the battles with New York- and Hollywood-based movie-makers, fed up with the interference from the church, Ouimet sold his theater, which was renamed Le Canadien after his departure. Quebec's movie pioneer said "au revoir" to the province and decamped for Hollywood in 1922, where he formed a production company, Laval Photoplays, that made "Why Get Married?" The film was not as big a success as Ouimet anticipated, and he abandoned commercial movie-making.
Returning to Montreal, he leased a movie theater on Bleury Street, but he was financially ruined in 1935 after two people were killed in a fire at his movie house, and he was successfully sued by their survivors. Ouimet retired from the industry he loved forever, though he continued to experiment with movie technology. He took a job as a store manager for the Quebec Liquor Commission.
Leo-Ernest Ouimet died on March 2nd, 1972, at the age of 94. He did not die unhonored, as Le Canadien was renamed Ouimetoscope in 1966. The federal government at this time was undertaking the biggest building boom of cinemas since the initial 20-year boom was crushed by the Great Depression, erecting cultural centers with cinemas to commemorate the 1967 Centennial of the Confederation in 1967. A year after the centennial celebrations, which put Montreal on the international map with Expo '67, the last great World's Fair, Cinematheque canadienne put a plaque on the Ouimetoscope building to commemorate the 60th anniversary of its opening.
Thus, in his old age, during a revival of French Canadian identify that would revolutionize Quebec's relations with the rest of the Confederation, the province remembered Ouimet. It remembered the old gentilhomme not just for bringing bonhomie to his `patrie,' but for his technical innovations and for his faith in the future of cinema. It hailed him for opening up the province of Quebec to the world, and for making the world cognizant of Quebec, all through the magic lantern that was the Ouimetoscope.- Percy Moore was born on 19 September 1877 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Shock Punch (1925). He was married to Helen Stewart (actress). He died on 8 April 1945 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Eva Tanguay was born in Marbleton, Québec, Canada, on August 1, 1878. A stage actress early on, Eva went into vaudeville as soon as she got the chance and performed there for years, becoming known as "The Girl Who Made Vaudeville Famous". She was a late comer to the world of movies; had she been born 20 years later, she probably would have been a bona fide star on the screen. She was 38 when she appeared in her first motion picture, Energetic Eva (1916). Her next--and last--film was The Wild Girl (1917).
Eva died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California, on January 11, 1947. She was 69 years old. - Lionel Groulx was born on 13 January 1879 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Le chanoine Lionel Groulx, historien (1960), Les adieux de la Grise (2013) and Reportage (1956). He died on 23 May 1967 in Vaudreuil, Québec, Canada.
- Cecil Yapp was born on 4 April 1879 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Silver King (1919) and The Second Son (1915). He died on 4 February 1959 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Matheson Lang was born on 15 May 1879 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor and writer, known for Drake the Pirate (1935), Carnival (1921) and Dick Turpin's Ride to York (1922). He was married to Nellie Hutin Britton. He died on 11 April 1948 in Bridgetown, Barbados.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Unsmiling character player Lucile Watson was one of Hollywood's most indomitable mothers of the 1930s and 1940s...and you can take that both ways. The archetypal matriarch who enhanced scores of plush, soapy, Victorian-styled drama, her prickly pears could be insufferable indeed and heaven help anyone who gathered up the courage to take them on. A fiercely protective mother usually to everyone's detriment, her narrow-minded characters were overt and opinionated, customarily equipped with a withering look and slivered tongue as weapons. Having no trouble whatsoever situating themselves into any and all's business, Lucile played imperious mother to filmdom's top stars including James Stewart and Robert Taylor, and often stole a bit of the thunder from under them.
She was born on May 27, 1879 in Quebec, Canada and trained at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, making her first professional stage appearance in "The Wisdom of the Wise" in 1902 at the age of 23. For the next three decades plus, she played, in stark contrast to her later stereotype, frothy ladies in witty, sparkling comedy. Her superlative performance on Broadway in "The City" in 1909 guaranteed her position as a stage star. Playwright Clyde Fitch went on to use her quite frequently in his productions. Other stage successes over the years included "Under Cover" (1913), "Heartbreak House" (1920), "Ghosts" (1926), The Importance of Being Earnest (1926), "No More Ladies" (1934), "Pride and Prejudice" (1935) and "Yes, My Darling Daughter" (1936). She blossomed in both chic lead and support roles.
It took her longer, however, to bloom on film... and it was not as a leading lady. She didn't make her film bow until age 55 in the Helen Hayes vehicle What Every Woman Knows (1934). She then slowly moved up the credits list after playing minor servile roles at first. Her first noticeable support was as Norma Shearer's advice-spouting mom in the classic Clare Boothe Luce film adaptation of The Women (1939) in which she expounds on the inescapable infidelities of husbands and the importance of saving face in high society. Better yet was her thorny, smothering mother to James Stewart in Made for Each Other (1939) in which she squares off with Carole Lombard who poses a threat as a possible daughter-in-law. So too was her cool-as-ice matriarch in Waterloo Bridge (1940) as she tries to separate son Robert Taylor from Vivien Leigh's fiancé with a sordid past.
Lucile reached the apex of her adult career with Lillian Hellman's anti-fascist war drama "Watch on the Rhine" (1941) starring Paul Lukas on Broadway. Two years later she and Lukas preserved their brilliance on film. Co-starring Bette Davis, Watch on the Rhine (1943) won Lukas the Academy Award for "best actor" and Lucile was acknowledged for her matriarchal supporting turn, but lost to Katina Paxinou for her work in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943).
Lucile continued to set a pattern of excellence in the post-war years with arch supports in such films as My Reputation (1946) as Barbara Stanwyck iron-willed mom, the class Disney film Song of the South (1946) and cranky Aunt March in the MGM remake of Little Women (1949). She wound up her film career wreaking havoc in the musical Let's Dance (1950) as Betty Hutton's maligning mother-in-law and in the overly melodramatic My Forbidden Past (1951) as newly-rich Ava Gardner's scheming great aunt. Following a return to the stage and some scattered work in television anthologies, Lucile retired in 1954 at the age of 75 to live out her last years in New York.
Lucile's first marriage somewhere around 1910 to actor Rockliffe Fellowes was brief. She subsequently married playwright Louis Evan Shipman in 1928, a union that lasted until his death in 1933. The character veteran passed away on June 25, 1962, after suffering a heart attack at age 83.- Producer
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Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1880 in Danville, Quebec, Canada, to Irish immigrant farmers. When he was 17, his parents moved the family to East Berlin, Connecticut, and he became a laborer at American Iron Works, a job he continued when they moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. He happened to meet Marie Dressler in 1902, and through her went to New York City to attempt for a career on the stage. He managed some burlesque and chorus-boy parts. In 1908, he began acting in Biograph films. His work there lasted until 1911; it included being directed by D.W. Griffith and acting with Mary Pickford and Mabel Normand. By 1910, he was directing.
In 1912, he and two bookies-turned-producers--Adam Kessel and Charles Bauman--formed the Keystone Film Company. Sennett brought Mabel Normand with him and soon added Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin Al St. John, Slim Summerville, Minta Durfee and Charles Chaplin (who was directed by Sennett in 35 comedies during 1914). He told Chaplin, "We have no scenario--we get an idea, then follow the natural sequence of events until it leads up to a chase, which is the essence of our comedy." To the slapstick chase gags of the Keystone Kops were gradually added the Bathing Beauties and the Kid Komedies. In 1915 he, Griffith and Thomas H. Ince formed Triangle Films.
Comedy moved from improvisational slapstick to scripted situations. Stars like Bobby Vernon and Gloria Swanson joined him. In 1917, he formed Mack Sennett Comedies, distributing through Paramount--and later Pathe--and launching another star, Harry Langdon. When Sennett returned to Paramount in 1932, he produced shorts featuring W.C. Fields and musical ones with Bing Crosby. After directing his only Buster Keaton film, The Timid Young Man (1935), he returned to Canada a pauper. In 1937, he was awarded a special Oscar--"to the master of fun, discoverer of stars... for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen."
Mack Sennett died at age 80 on November 5, 1960 in Woodland Hills, California, and was interred at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.- Norman Field was born on 4 January 1881 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Destination Big House (1950), Invitation (1952) and The Twonky (1953). He died on 11 September 1956 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Actor
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Charles Albin was well known in his day as a portrait painter, and later as a society photographer, best known for his portraits of Lillian Gish, John Barrymore and Mary Astor ; it was his portrait of Astor that brought her to Hollywood fame. A native of Montreal, Albin emigrated to the United States when he was ten years old; as a youth he wished to join the Franciscan Order, and, after manifesting a talent for art, was sent to Frank Duverneck's studio in Cincinnati to get training to become an artist of devotional paintings. When commanded to return to the cloister, Albin left the order and went out on his own as a painter, and later a photographer. He was active in New York City for about twenty years; in the '30s, he went west to California, where he had a studio in Culver City, where he painted still lifes. In the 1940s, he gave it all up and returned to the Franciscan Order and became a monk.- Louis St. Laurent was born on 1 February 1882 in Compton, Québec, Canada. He was married to Jeanne Renault. He died on 25 July 1973 in Québec City, Québec, Canada.
- Veda Buckland was born on 25 August 1882 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), This Mad World (1930) and Doctor Bull (1933). She was married to Wilfred Buckland. She died on 20 May 1941 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Marius Barbeau was born on 5 March 1883 in St-Georges-de-Beauce, Quebec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? (1952), False Faces (1963) and Marius Barbeau et l'art totémique (1959). He was married to Marie Ernestine Larocque . He died on 27 February 1969 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Wyrley Birch was born on 7 May 1883 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Guard That Girl (1935), Air Hawks (1935) and Studio One (1948). He was married to Grace Bullock. He died on 7 February 1959 in Mount Kisco, New York, USA.
- Hector Charland was born on 1 June 1883 in L'Assomption, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for A Man and His Sin (1949), Séraphin (1950) and La maison en ordre (1936). He was married to Zoé Daoust and Marie-Blanche Chevalier. He died on 28 December 1962.
- Gustave Lanctôt was born on 5 July 1883 in Saint-Constan, Quebec, Canada. He is known for John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea (1961), David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker (1964) and Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North (1964). He died on 2 February 1975.
- Lester Patrick was born on 30 December 1883 in Drummondville, Québec, Canada. He died on 1 June 1960 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Martin Brown was born on 22 June 1884 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Paris (1929), The Secret of Madame Blanche (1933) and The Virtuous Sin (1930). He died on 13 February 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Fanny Tremblay was born on 5 January 1885 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Le père Chopin (1945), Le rossignol et les cloches (1952) and A Man and His Sin (1949). She was married to J.R. Tremblay. She died on 18 January 1970 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Marie-Victorin was born on 3 April 1885 in Kingsey Falls, Arthabaska, Quebec, Canada. He died on 15 July 1944 in Sainte-Rosalie, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada.
- Conrad Gauthier was born on 8 August 1885 in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Le père Chopin (1945) and A Man and His Sin (1949). He died on 14 February 1964 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
- Gerald Rowan was born on 14 November 1885 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an actor, known for Bush Pilot (1947), Sins of the Fathers (1948) and Folio (1955). He was married to Elizabeth Freeman. He died on 22 February 1967 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Considered to be one of the greatest goaltenders of all time, Georges Vezina was born in Chicoultimi, Quebec, He joined the Montreal Canadiens in 1910-11 and for the next 15 years, he played a total of 328 consecutive games and 39 more in the playoffs.
Nicknamed the "Chicoultimi Cucumber", for his grace and coolness under pressure, he comes from an era when there were no backup goaltenders on a team and goaltenders were not permitted to drop to their knees to stop a puck. He played a stand-up style of goaltending.
He helped the Canadiens to five championship teams and to two Stanley Cup winning teams in the 1915-16 and the 1923-24 seasons.
His last game was on November 28, despite severe chest pains, which were the first signs of tuberculosis and he had to retire after one period. Stories were that when he left the team, what he wanted to take with him, was his jersey he wore when he helped the Canadiens win the Stanley Cup. Tuberculosis took his life on March 26, 1926.
In his honor, the Vezina Trophy is awarded to the top goaltender in the National Hockey League, as decided by the National Hockey League general Managers. The Trophy was presented to the NHL before the 1926-27 season by Montreal Canadiens owners Leo Dandurand, Leo Letourneau and Joseph Cattaranich.
Vezina was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945 as one of the first inductees. In addition, 11 others who were inducted into the Hall that year. That class includes, Art Ross, for whom the NHL's scoring title is named after and Lord Stanley of Preston, The "Father" of the Stanley Cup.- Nana de Varennes was born on 21 February 1887 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Les lumières de ma ville (1950), Les brûlés (1959) and Fleur bleue (1971). She was married to Roméo Godin. She died on 1 July 1981 in Buckingham, Québec, Canada.
- Montreal-born Huntley Gordon was educated in both Canada and England, and upon completing his education took a job with the Bank of Montreal, later starting his own stock trading firm. However, he had had a taste of "the stage" in amateur productions, and soon gave up the business life for that of an actor, moving to New York and eventually managing to get small parts in Broadway productions. As luck would have it, one day he ran into a friend who was on his way to the Lambs Club to offer an actor who was living there a part in a film being shot by Vitagraph in New York City. Gordon said that he would take the part, and he was soon in front of the cameras. Director Ralph Ince took Gordon under his wing and secured him a contract with Vitagraph. Gordon became a reliable leading man and character actor in silents and, unlike many of his contemporaries, easily made the transition into sound films. He made his last film in 1941. He died of a heart attack at his home in Van Nuys, CA, in 1956.