caption resting_place death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor title birth_date known_for term image article_title name occupation
sir adolphe-basile routhier , c. 1890 cimetière notre-dame-de-belmont 27 june 1920 saint-irénée-les-bains , quebec frank dawson adams saint-benoît -lrb- saint-placide -rrb- , lower canada alfred baker president of the royal society of canada 08 may 1839 wrote the canadian national anthem '' o canada '' the lyrics of the original french version of 1913 -- 1914 adolphe-basile routhier.png adolphe-basile routhier
 sir adolphe-basile routhier lawyer , author , judge , and professor
adolphe-basile routhier

sir adolphe-basile routhier -lrb- may 8 , 1839 -- june 27 , 1920 -rrb- was a canadian judge , author , and lyricist .
he wrote the lyrics of the original french version of the canadian national anthem `` o canada '' .
he was born in saint-placide , quebec , to charles routhier and angélique lafleur .
routhier studied law at université laval .
he graduated and was called to the quebec bar in 1861 .
he was appointed to the quebec superior court in 1873 -lrb- as chief justice from 1904 to 1906 -rrb- and admiralty of the exchequer court of canada -lrb- from 1897 to 1906 -rrb- .
routhier was involved in several federal elections as a conservative candidate , but he was never elected .
in june 1914 , routhier was one of the three judges appointed to conduct the commission of inquiry into the sinking of the canadian pacific steamship the , which had resulted in the loss of 1,012 lives .
routhier married clorinde mondelet on november 12 , 1862 , in quebec and had one son .
