Émile-Dostaler O'Leary

Émile-Dostaler O'Leary (16 August 1908 – 18 April 1965) was a Canadian journalist and writer.

Biography Émile-Dostaler O'Leary was born in Berthierville, Quebec and attended the Collège Saint-Joseph in Berthierville before travelling to Belgium to study at the "Petit Séminaire de Basse-Wavre" and, later, the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France) and Université libre de Bruxelles. He completed a B.Sc. degree in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the Institut de chimie Meurice.

O'Leary was a representative to the executive of the International Federation of Journalists

He served as the UPF's president from 1950 to 1955. He also involved himself with the formation of the Canadian Union of French-language Journalists .

Personal life O'Leary was born to Émile O'Leary and Fébronie Dostaler and had two sisters—Marguerite and Alice—and a brother, Walter-Patrice. He married Lucille Lévesque on 15 April 1939, at the age of 30. He fathered four children: Marie-France, Denis, Étienne O'Leary, and Véronique. O'Leary died on 18 April 1965 in Paris, aged 56, from undisclosed causes.

Publications

L'"inferiority complex", 1935 (English translation: The "inferiority complex") Séparatisme, doctrine constructive, 1936 (English translation: Separatism: a constructive doctrine) Jeunes du Québec et France d'aujourd'hui 1941 (English translation: Youth of Quebec and France today) Introduction à l'histoire de l'Amérique latine, 1949 (English translation: Introduction to the history of Latin America) Le roman canadien-français : étude historique et critique. Montreal: Le Cercle du Livre de France, 1954. (English translation: The French-Canadian novel: A historical and critical study)