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71. Michel BIBEAU (BIBAUD) was born on 19 Jan 1782 in Cote-des-Neiges, Quebec, Canada. from the Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography (4th ed.) 1978-
(1782-1857), journalist and historian, was born at Cote des Neiges, near Montreal, on January 20, 1782, of habitant stock. He was educated at the college of St. Raphael (1800-06), and for many years supported himself by teaching. Meanwhile, he drifted into journalism. He was one of the editors of Le Spectateur (1813-29), and in succession he founded and edited a number of periodicals, L'Aurore (1816-19), Le Courrier du Bas-Canada (1819), La Bibliotheque Canadienne (1825-30), L'Observateur (1831-32), Le Magasin du Bas-Canada (1832), and L'Encyclopedie Canadienne (1842-43). In 1830 he published Epitres, satires, chansons, epigrammes et autres pieces de vers (Montreal), the first volume of verse printed by a French Canadian. He published also a text-book on arithmetic (Montreal, 1816). But it is as one of the pioneers in Canadian historiography that he is best remembered. In 1820 he published the Relation d'un voyage a la cote du nord-ouest de l'Amerique septentrionale, during the years 1810-14, par G. Franchere (Montreal). This volume which is now very rare, was published also in an English translation; and in 1854 a second edition of the translation was brought out in New York by Franchere himself, thought without acknowledgement of Bibaud's authorship. In 1837 there appeared in Montreal the first volume of his Histoire du Canada (2nd ed., revised and enlarged, 1843); in 1844 he published the second volume; and in 1878 his son, Dr. J.G. Bibaud, published the third volume. The work, which was the first account of Canadian history by a French Canadian, had many defects, and it has never been popular in French Canada, because of its Tory leanings; but it contains materials which might otherwise have been lost. Bibaud died in Montreal on August 3, 1857. He had four sons and one daughter. His portrait is in the Chateau de Ramezay, Montreal.

Michel BIBEAU (BIBAUD) and Caroline Elizabeth DELISLE were married on 11 May 1812 in Notre-Dame-de-Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Michel BIBEAU (BIBAUD) and Caroline Elizabeth DELISLE had the following children:

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Maximilien (Francois Marie Uncas) BIBEAU (BIBAUD) was born on 26 Nov 1823 or 23 Oct 1824 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a Lawyer, Author. from The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography (4th ed.) 1978 Bibaud, Francois-Marie-Uncas-Maximilien (1824-1887), author, was born at Montreal, Lower Canada, in November, 1824, the son of Michel Bibaud. He was educated in Montreal, was called to the bar, and was one of the founders of the school of law at the Jesuit College in Montreal. In this school he was for a time a professor. He died, unmarried, at Montreal on 9 July, 1887. He was a author of a number of works of unequal value: Biographie des sagamos illustres de l'Amerique septentrionale (Montreal, 1848), Essai logique judiciaire (Montreal, 1853), Catechisme de l'histoire du Canada (Montreal, 1853), Les institutions de l'histoire du Canada, ou Annales Canadiennes (Montreal, 1855), Le charlatanisme dans l'histoire (Montreal, 1855), Deuz pages de l'histoire d'Amerique (Montreal, 1857), Dictionnaire historique des hommes illustres du Canada et de l'Amerique (Montreal, 1857), Opuscules (Montreal, 1857), Le Pantheon Canadien (Montreal, 1857; new and rev. ed., 1891), Tableau historique des progres materiels et intellectuels du Canada (Montreal, 1858), Bibliotheque Canadienne, ou Annales bibliographiques (Montreal, 1858), Commentaires sur lest lois du Bas-Canada (Montreal, 1859), Tablettes historiques Canadiennes (Montreal, 1859; 2nd ed., 1861), Les Machabees Canadiens (Montreal, 1859), Notice historique sur l'enseignement du droit en Canada (Montreal, 1862), L'honorable L.A. Dessaulles et le systeme judiciaire des Etats Pontificaux (Montreal, 1862), La confederation du Sud (Monteal, 1864), Le memorial des vicissitudes et des progres de la langue francaise en Canada (Montreal, 1879), and Memorial des honneurs etrangers conferes a des Canadiens (Montreal, 1885). (LeJeune, Dict. gen.; Morgan, Bib. can.)