Dominique Gauthier (medical doctor)
Joseph Dominique Gauthier (born February 25, 1910 in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton , Québec , † March 20, 2006 ) was a Canadian doctor and folklorist.
Gauthier attended the Séminaire de Notre-Dame-des-Cœurs in Papineauville as well as the Collège Saint-Joseph and completed a degree at the Université de Moncton , where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1948. He also studied medicine at the Université Laval .
After a stay in India, where he worked as an army doctor with the rank of officer, he settled in Shippagan / New Brunswick in 1938 and worked there as a doctor for forty years. Here he met Luc Lacourcière (October 18, 1910 - May 15, 1989) and Félix-Antoine Savard (1896–1982) in 1950 , two scientists from the Laval University who conducted folklore studies in the region. He put them in touch with patients who had knowledge of folkloric traditions and, inspired by this encounter, himself collected three hundred songs and nine hundred stories in the following years, which he made available to the folklore archive of the Laval University.
Gauthier has received several awards both as a doctor and as a folklorist. In 1963 he received the papal cross of honor Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice , in 1971 the coat of arms of the Association des médecins de langue française du Canada , and in 1976 the Faculty of Medicine at Laval University named him Family Doctor of the Year. For his folkloric work he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1973. The city of Shippagan named the Boulevard JD Gauthier after him.
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| SURNAME | Gauthier, Dominique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gauthier, Joseph Dominique |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian doctor and folklorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Théodore-d'Acton , Québec |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 2006 |