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They had a family together. Beginning in December 1914, Barbeau carried out three months' fieldwork in Lax Kw'alaams (Port Simpson), British Columbia, the largest Tsimshian village in Canada. He collaborated with his interpreter, William Beynon, a Tsimshian hereditary chief. [2] .
May 19, 2008 · Marius Barbeau was a pioneering anthropologist and the founder of professional folklore studies in Canada. He worked at the National Museum (now the Canadian Museum of History ) from 1911 until the late 1960s, collecting a vast archive of thousands of traditional songs, texts and artifacts — especially of French Canadian and Aboriginal peoples.
Barbeau was born in Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, Quebec, and grew up in a rural middle class family. As a child his mother and a local school provided his education before he left home to attend classical college and then Laval University in Quebec City.
His mother, Marie Virginie Morency, was an educated woman who introduced him to folksongs through her love of music; his father, farmer and horseman Charles Barbeau, was a ready source of folk stories and tall tales who also performed a vast repertoire of old-time fiddle tunes.
Marius Barbeau with his sister and brothers, c.1891. I was born on March 5, 1883, in Sainte-Marie de Beauce. My parents lived on a large farm, with a brick house, barns, a stable and sheds surrounded by trees and gardens.
Marius Barbeau was born on March 5, 1883 in Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Québec, Canada. He obtained a law degree from Université Laval, and went on to win a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he obtained a degree in Anthropology.
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The good friends that I had were the Baillairgé, from a family of sculptors and architects, which I later studied. There was Ruth, Naomi and Hagar, daughters of the architect (deceased) Charles Baillairgé.
