page_title: Louis-Edmond Hamelin
hierarchical_section_title: Louis-Edmond Hamelin
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Louis-Edmond Hamelin au Salon international du livre de Québec 2014, alors qu'il reçoit le prix Hubert-Reeves de l'Association des communicateurs scientifiques du Québec, pour le livre L'Apparition du Nord selon Gérard Mercator, dont il est coauteur avec Stéfano Biondo et Joë Bouchard.
context_page_description: Louis-Edmond Hamelin, OC GOQ FRSC was a Canadian geographer, professor, and author born in Saint-Didace, Quebec, Canada, best known for his studies of Northern Canada.
  Hamelin created the Centre for Northern Studies at the Université Laval in Québec and was rector of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 1978 to 1983. He was also a member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Council.
  Hamelin specialized in Northern and Aboriginal peoples studies. He coined several words concerning the North, some of which came to enter the English vocabulary. His seminal work was the 1958 Nordicité Canadienne.
context_section_description: Louis-Edmond Hamelin, OC GOQ FRSC (21 March 1923 – February 11, 2020) was  a Canadian geographer, professor, and author born in Saint-Didace, Quebec, Canada, best known for his studies of Northern Canada.
  Hamelin created the Centre for Northern Studies at the Université Laval in Québec and was rector of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 1978 to 1983. He was also a member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Council.
  Hamelin specialized in Northern and Aboriginal peoples studies. He coined several words concerning the North, some of which (such as Nordicity) came to enter the English vocabulary. His seminal work was the 1958 Nordicité Canadienne (translated 1979 as Canadian Nordicity: It's Your North, Too).
caption: Hamelin in 2014
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