Juliette Champagne: Author

The author of most of the articles in this special WCR supplement on Alberta's Centennial is local historian Juliette Champagne.

Champagne holds a doctorate in history from Laval University (2001) and has specialized in early Western Canadian history. Her master's thesis (1990) at the University of Alberta dealt with the livelihood of the Métis population at Lac la Biche during the 19th century, and she subsequently prepared a narrative history of Notre-Dame-des-Victoires Mission at Lac la Biche.

Les Presses de l'Universit‚ Laval published her doctoral dissertion in 2003, De la Bretagne aux plaines de l'Ouest canadien, lettres d'un d‚fricheur franco-albertain, Alexandre Mah‚ (1880-1968), which deals with French-Canadian settlement and boosterism in northeastern Alberta.

In 1997, Septentrion also published her edition of the memoirs of Joseph Le Treste, an Oblate missionary who worked throughout northern Alberta between 1885 and 1955 (Souvenirs d'un missionnaire breton dans le Nord-Ouest canadien, Septentrion).

She currently lives in Edmonton.

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