Memorable Manitobans: Jean-Henri Lagasse (1925-1991)

Civil servant.

Born at Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan on 21 September 1925, son of Stanislas Lagasse (1885-1950) and Misea Nobert (1886-1953), he moved to Manitoba in 1938. He received a BA degree from St. Boniface College (1947) and an MA degree from Columbia University (1956). He was head of the Canadian Citizenship Branch office (1952-1956), head of the Research Committee for the Manitoba Royal Commission on Indians and Métis (1957-1959), and a consultant on Indigenous and Métis affairs for the Province of Manitoba (1960). He and wife Anne Flavelle Bradshaw (?-?) had two sons and a daughter. He was President of the Manitoba Federation of Home and School Associations (1957-1959). He died at Victoria, British Columbia on 2 August 1991 and was buried with his family in the Notre Dame de Lorette Roman Catholic Cemetery.

His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

The Métis in Manitoba
MHS Transactions, Series 3, 1958-1959 Season

Sources:

Death registration, British Columbia Vital Statistics.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 8 August 1991, page 27.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Joseph Keeper for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

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