Étienne Gaboury: Difference between revisions

|birth_place = [[Swan Lake (Manitoba)|Swan LakeBruxelles, Manitoba]], Canada

Gaboury was born in [[Swan LakeBruxelles, Manitoba]], on April 24, 1930.<ref name=Historica>{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Thompson|first1=William P.|last2=Boddy|first2=Trevor|editor-last=|editor-first=|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|title=Étienne-Joseph Gaboury|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/etienne-joseph-gaboury|date=May 19, 2008|access-date=October 16, 2022|volume=|publisher=Historica Canada}}</ref> His parents, Napoléon and Valentine Gaboury, were [[French Canadians|French-Canadian]] farmers. He was the youngest of 11 children,<ref name="EOM">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Chaput|first=Lucien|contribution=Étienne-Joseph Gaboury|title=The Encyclopedia of Manitoba |pages=261–262 |isbn=978-1894283717 |editor-last=Boyens |editor-first=Ingeborg |publisher=Great Plains Publications |year=2007}}</ref> and was a distant relative of [[Louis Riel]].<ref name="WFP obit">{{cite news|title=Manitoba's greatest architect dies at 92|url=https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/2022/10/15/manitobas-greatest-architect-dies-at-92|date=October 15, 2022|access-date=October 16, 2022|newspaper=[[Winnipeg Free Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016183335/https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/featured/2022/10/15/manitobas-greatest-architect-dies-at-92|archivedate=October 16, 2022}}</ref> Gaboury studied [[architecture]] and [[Latin]] at [[St. Boniface College]] in the [[University of Manitoba]], graduating with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1953.<ref name="EOM" /> He then obtained a [[Bachelor of Architecture]] from the same institution five years later.<ref name=Historica/><ref name="EOM" /> While studying at the [[École des Beaux Arts]] in [[Paris]] from 1958 to 1959,<ref name="EOM" /> he was greatly influenced by the designs of [[Le Corbusier]].<ref name="WFP obit"/><ref name=Historica/>

Gaboury's wife was a ceramist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Lise Gaboury-Diallo?|url=https://ustboniface.ca/document.doc?id=75|access-date=October 16, 2022|publisher=[[Université de Saint-Boniface]]|langlanguage=fr}}</ref> Their daughter, {{interlanguage link|Lise Gaboury-Diallo|fr}}, was an author and professor of literature at the University of St. Boniface.<ref name="CBC obit">{{cite news|title=Étienne Gaboury, architect behind some of Winnipeg's most iconic buildings, dead at 92|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/etienne-gaboury-architect-obituary-1.6618043|first=Joff|last=Schmidt|date=October 15, 2022|accessdate=October 16, 2022|publisher=CBC News}}</ref> Grandfather of [[Anna Binta Diallo]] , multidisciplinary visual artist<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.galadynastie.com/nommees/anna-binta-diallo-2 | title=Gala Dynastie }}</ref>

Gaboury died on October 14, 20232022, at the age of 92.<ref name="WFP obit"/><ref name="CBC obit"/>

Gaboury was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba in 1987.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://umanitoba.ca/admin/governance/senate/hdr/833.html|title=Honorary Degree Recipients}}</ref> He had earlier been conferred a Canadian Heritage Award for his reconstruction of Saint Boniface Cathedral.<ref name="WFP obit"/> Gaboury was appointed a [[Member of the Order of Canada]] (CM) in [[2010 Canadian honours|May 2010]] and invested six months later in November.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13725&lan=eng|title=Order of Canada appointments|date=September 20, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Mr. Étienne Gaboury|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-9530|access-date=October 16, 2022|publisher=The Governor General of Canada}}</ref> Two years later, he was made a [[Order of Manitoba|Member of the Order of Manitoba]] (OM).<ref name="OM bio">{{cite web|title=Order of Manitoba – Recipient Biographies|url=https://www.manitobalg.ca/awards/order-of-manitoba/recipient-biographies/#gaboury|access-date=October 16, 2022|publisher=Office of the [[Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba]]}}</ref><ref name="WFP2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/order-of-manitoba-grows-stronger-162324126.html|title=Order of Manitoba grows stronger|work=Winnipeg Free Press|date=July 13, 2012}}</ref>