40 years of rural history: Alain Laberge, historian, professor, and knowledge conveyor

(Image courtesy of Sophie Imbeault)

On 5 May a one-day seminar was held to celebrate the career of Professor Alain Laberge, directeur général adjoint of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada (DCB/DBC). The event, called “40 years of rural history: Alain Laberge, historian, professor, and knowledge conveyor,” took place in Carter Hall at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec City.

For their talk entitled “Alain Laberge au DBC : la biographie au cœur de l’histoire,” Anne Carrier and Marie-Michelle Pagé, codirectrices de la rédaction at the DCB/DBC, traced the origins of the biographical genre to demonstrate its role in understanding history and described M. Laberge’s contributions to the project since his appointment in August 2019.

The DCB/DBC team would like to thank the organizing committee (Emmy Bois, Joseph Gagné, Benoît Grenier, and Michel Thévenin) for facilitating the event, which made possible many wonderful exchanges. We wish to express our sincere congratulations to M. Laberge for his exceptional career in the Department of History at the Université Laval, and we also pay tribute to him for his past and future commitment as directeur général adjoint of the DCB/DBC! 

To read Alain Laberge’s “Favourite Five” DCB/DBC bios, click here.