Gilbert Buote

Gilbert Buote (20 February 1833 – 16 July 1904) was an Acadian educator, publisher and author.[1]

Gilbert Buote

Buote was born in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island. He, along with his son François-Joseph, founded and published the first Acadian newspaper on the Island, L'Impartial, in June 1893. His novel, Placide, l'homme mystérieux, was published in 30 installments in L'Impartial, between 1904 and 1906. Gilbert was married to Madeleine Gallant on 20 February 1860. Buote propounded "amalgamation" consensus in a French Acadian community of "relatively few" riven by "Liberal and Conservative" factionalism. These remonstrances, as well as Liberal Party gerrymandering of Roman Catholic voters, precipitated the June 1893 founding of L'Impartial, a newspaper featuring the masthead motto "unity is strength" for the "small Acadian population of the Island."[2] French Acadian factionalism came on the heels of a successful 1891 motion, by Neil McLeod, to incorporate the Roman Catholic Watchman newspaper (named after lighthouse keepers and/or the famed P.E.I. sandhill) into the "Watchman Publishing Company."[3] Watchman editors subsequently endorsed McLeod's variant of the Conservative "amalgamation" narrative, which centered enfranchisement, until the 1901 Scott Act.[4]

He died in Tignish, Prince Edward Island.

References
  1. Arsenault, Georges (1994). "Buote, Gilbert". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XIII (1901–1910) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  2. Arsenault, Georges (2000). "Gilbert Boute: A Man of the Acadian Renaissance". Island Magazine.
  3. Crosskill, William (1892). The Parliamentary Reporter, or Debates and Proceedings of the House of Assembly, of Prince Edward Island, for the Year 1891. Queen Street: George Gardiner, Steam Printer. pp. 244 and 274.
  4. Boyland, Heather (1987). Checklist and Historical Directory of Prince Edward Island Newspapers, 1787-1986. Charlottetown: Public Archives of Prince Edward Island. p. 167.


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