Gérin-Lajoie family

The Gérin-Lajoie family is a French-Canadian family descended from Jean Gérin dit La joie, a sergeant in the troops of the military forces of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, in New France. Several members of the family have been notable members of the legal, social and intellectual communities of Quebec since the 19th century.

Notable members

Gérin-Lajoie family tombstone: Alexandre (1893-1969), Antoine (1824-1882), Henri (1859-1936), Léon (1895-1959), Marie (1867-1945, wife of Henri), Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery (B276 1/2), Montreal.

• André Gérin, dit la Joie (Yamachiche, January 15, 1771 - Yamachiche, November 22, 1825)
  • André Gérin-Lajoie (Yamachiche, December 30, 1799 - ?) ;
    • Charles Gérin-Lajoie (Yamachiche, December 28, 1824 - Trois-Rivières, November 6, 1895), member of the House of Commons of Canada for Saint-Maurice ;

• Antoine Gérin-Lajoie (Yamachiche, August 4, 1824 - Ottawa, August 7, 1882), lawyer and novelist
  • Léon Gérin (Quebec City, May 17, 1863 - Montreal, January 15, 1951), Quebec's first sociologist, president of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Henri Gérin-Lajoie (Quebec City, October 18, 1859 - May 7, 1936), lawyer and bâtonnier of Quebec. He married the pioneering feminist Marie Lacoste, known as Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, the daughter of Alexandre Lacoste, in 1887
    • Marie Gérin-Lajoie (Montreal, June 9, 1890 - Montreal, January 7, 1971), social worker and founder of a religious community
    • Henri Gérin-Lajoie II (February 4, 1892 - August 1, 1976)
      • Paul Gérin-Lajoie (Montreal, February 23, 1920 - June 25, 2018), politician and creator of the Gérin-Lajoie doctrine.

References

See also

• Gérin-Lajoie