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Élie Blanchard

1881 - 1941

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Joseph Élie Blanchard (August 3, 1881 – December 12, 1941) was a Canadian lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Born in Montreal in 1881, he graduated as an engineer at the École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1902 before working for the city of Winnipeg in 1904. The same year, he was briefly a member of the Shamrock Lacrosse Team which won the gold medal in the lacrosse tournament on July 7, 1904, against the St.-Louis Amateur Athletic Association's team. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Élie Blanchard has received more than 7,916 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Élie Blanchard is the 6,642nd most popular writer, the 772nd most popular biography from Canada and the 42nd most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Élie Blanchard ranks 6,642 out of 7,302Before him are Frederick Denison Maurice, Sheila Jeffreys, Victoria Hislop, Oliver La Farge, Audrey Niffenegger, and Julie Plec. After him are Rose Tremain, Olga Slavnikova, Bosley Crowther, Tõnu Õnnepalu, Randall Jarrell, and James Weldon Johnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Élie Blanchard ranks 232Before him are Delfina Bunge, Lascelles Abercrombie, Alice Wilson, Margaret Wycherly, Cecil Healy, and Robert Stangland. After him are Éamonn Ceannt, Eleonora Sears, Louis Baillon, Padraic Colum, Crystal Eastman, and William R. Orthwein. Among people deceased in 1941, Élie Blanchard ranks 216Before him are Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Ira Davenport, Richard Carle, William Gibbs McAdoo, James Stephenson, and Carrie Derick. After him are Charles Murray, Gus Kahn, Peggy Shannon, and Helen Morgan.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Élie Blanchard ranks 772 out of 1,622Before him are Wendy Freedman (1957), Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (1975), Romeo Rivers (1907), Pete Desjardins (1907), Adam Beach (1972), and Paul Gross (1959). After him are Aileen Meagher (1910), John Kapelos (1956), Brett Hull (1964), Bob Houbregs (1932), Vic Lindquist (1908), and Martin Brodeur (1972).

Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Élie Blanchard ranks 42Before him are Farley Mowat (1921), George Woodcock (1912), John Ralston Saul (1947), Robert Elsie (1950), Deborah Ellis (1960), and E. Pauline Johnson (1861). After him are Gregory Colbert (1960), Ed Greenwood (1959), Mavis Gallant (1922), Timothy Findley (1930), Cory Doctorow (1971), and Robert C. Cooper (1968).