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Paul Sébastien Guyot
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Photographer, cinematographer, artist.
Born at St. Boniface on 20 January 1917, son of Adolphe Guyot (1879-1966) and Olympe Gauthier (1875-1937), during the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and travelled across Canada, serving in the coastal command and was also stationed in Burma and India. After his return, he developed a lifelong passion for the North, having spent several years as an assistant manager of a hunting lodge at Sioux Narrows, Ontario (1951-1955) before returning to Winnipeg.
He worked as a cameraman for CBC-TV and Radio Canada (1956-1982), for which he travelled throughout Manitoba, filming documentary programs such as “This Land” with John and Janet Foster. He also directed the program “Caribou Mystery” (1959) on the attempts of the Manitoba Game Branch to discover the reasons for the disappearance of the caribou from northwestern Manitoba, undergoing considerable hardships for this project. Never forgetting the experience, he went on to capture the spirit of the wilderness in several film projects and documentaries, as well as in his art. A talented artist, hundreds of his oil paintings are held in public and private collections in Canada, the USA, and Europe.
On 17 June 1950, he married Odette Masserey (1924-2017) at the St. Boniface Basilica and they subsequently had two daughters and two sons.
He died suddenly, while on holiday in Alberta with his family, on 4 August 1988 and was buried in the St. Boniface Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Joseph Paul Sebastien Guyot, Odette Elga Louise Lasserey], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Olmpe Guyot], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Engagement notices,” Winnipeg Free Press, 27 May 1950, page 14.
Obituary [Adolphe Guyot], Winnipeg Free Press, 26 September 1966, page 27.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 August 1988, page 31.
Obituary [Odette Guyot], Winnipeg Free Press, 8 July 2017.
We thank Nicole Coulson for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Kris Keen and Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 May 2025
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