Adjutor Rivard

Adjutor Rivard
Adjutor Rivard
Born	(1868-01-22)January 22, 1868 Saint-Grégoire de Nicolet, Quebec
Died	July 22, 1945(1945-07-22) (aged 77) Quebec City, Quebec
Occupation(s)	lawyer, judge, linguist

Adjutor Rivard (22 January 1868 – 17 July 1945^[1]) was a lawyer, writer, judge and linguist from Quebec, Canada.

He studied at the Petit séminaire de Québec and Université Laval. He co-founded the Société du parler français au Canada (SPFC) and is recognized as one of the principal authors of the Glossaire du parler français au Canada published by the SPFC in 1930. With Mgr Louis-Nazaire Bégin, he also co-founded the L'Action catholique review.

Writing career

Rivard was something of a traditionalist as can be seen in his somewhat syrupy description of country life as portrayed in Chez Nous.^[2]

L'art de dire: traité de lecture et de récitation, 1898
Manuel de la parole, 1901
Bibliographie du parler français au Canada: catalogue analytique des ouvrages traitant de la langue française au Canada (with James Geddes)
Chez nous, 1914 (Translation by William Hume Blake, 1861-1924)
Études sur les parlers de France au Canada, 1914
Chez nos gens, 1918, (Prix de l'Académie française)
De la liberté de la presse, 1923
Glossaire du parler français au Canada, 1930

^ Claude Verreault. "Adjutor Rivard (1868-1945) Archived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine", in the site of the Laboratoire de lexicologie et lexicographie québécoises, retrieved October 25, 2009
^ Toye, William; Benson, Eugene, eds. (1997). Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (2 ed.). Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 362.