George William Albert Chapman, né George William Alphred (13 December 1850 – 23 February 1917), was a Canadian poet.

William Chapman
Born	George William Alphred Chapman (1850-12-13)December 13, 1850 Saint-François parish (in Beauceville), Lower Canada
Died	February 23, 1917(1917-02-23) (aged 66) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Resting place	Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
Genre	Poetry

Chapman was born at Saint-François-de-Beauce, Quebec (today's Beauceville), and was educated at Levis College in 1862-1867.[1] He studied law, afterward engaged in commercial pursuits, and later entered the civil service of the Province of Quebec. Chapman worked for some time as a journalist in Quebec City and Montreal; but in 1902 became a French translator for the Dominion Senate and removed to Ottawa, Ontario.

After his death in 1917, he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[2]

Selected bibliography

• Les Québécoises (1876)
• Mines d'or de la Beauce (1881)
• Guide et souvenir de la St-Jean-Baptiste (1884), Montréal
• Les Feuilles d'érable (1890)
• Le lauréat (1894)
• Les deux Copains (1894)
• Les aspirations : poésies canadiennes (1904), which received the highest prize of the Académie française
• Les Rayons du Nord (1910), which also gained the highest prize of the Académie française
• Les Fleurs de givre (1912)

References

• W. H. New, ed. Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002: 191.

External links

• Works by or about William Chapman at Internet Archive
• Works by William Chapman at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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