Educator, community activist.
Born at St. Malo on 6 January 1938, son of Emilien Desrosiers (1893-1995) and Ernestine Bourgeois (?-1985), he taught History and Social Studies for 33 years, and also taught drum-making, hunter safety, and canoeing. In 1961, he married Shirley Aline Marie Demarcke (1937-2023) and they had three children. He was active in the community, as an organizer of the Metis Pavilion at Folklorama and a volunteer at Festival du Voyageur. He was a member of L’Union Nationale Métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba from whom he received the Prix Riel (2019). He died at his Winnipeg home on 27 June 2023.
Marriage registration [Emilien Desrosiers, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Emilien Desrosiers], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 May 1995, page 25.
Obituary [Shirley Aline Marie Desrosiers], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 May 2023.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 8 July 2023.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 July 2024
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