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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. Following the Olympics, in 1905, Blanchard became the chief engineer for the city of Saint Henri. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Élie Blanchard is the 5,539th most popular writer (up from 6,642nd in 2019), the 501st most popular biography from Canada (up from 772nd in 2019) and the 35th most popular Canadian Writer.

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Among writers, Élie Blanchard ranks 5,539 out of 7,302. Before him are Evgeny Sveshnikov, Wang Meng, Steven Moffat, Marina Lewycka, Madeline Miller, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. After him are Carlo Cassola, Armand Lanoux, Johan Falkberget, Günter de Bruyn, Gorch Fock, and Sergei Lukyanenko.

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Among people born in 1881, Élie Blanchard ranks 200. Before him are Abdulla Shaig, Gunnar Setterwall, Jetze Doorman, Alice Catherine Evans, Aleksandr Gerasimov, and Alfredo Gollini. After him are Delfina Bunge, Gus Dillon, Valerian Albanov, Lou Tellegen, Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh, and Henryk Grossman. Among people deceased in 1941, Élie Blanchard ranks 188. Before him are Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon, Aleksander Prystor, František Křižík, Hugh Walpole, Wilhelm Leichum, and Friedrich Engel. After him are Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, John Stanley Plaskett, Matt McGrath, Kei Okami, Helmut Hamann, and Diederik Korteweg.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Élie Blanchard ranks 501 out of 1,622. Before him are Tricia Helfer (1974), Robertson Davies (1913), Michael Shanks (1970), George Orton (1873), Alex Trebek (1940), and Corey Haim (1971). After him are Kenneth Lane (1923), Anne Heggtveit (1939), François Legault (1957), Jack Cameron (1900), Jacob Viner (1892), and Sarah Chalke (1976).

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Among WRITERS In Canada

Among writers born in Canada, Élie Blanchard ranks 35. Before him are Michel Tremblay (1942), Wyndham Lewis (1882), Duncan Regehr (1952), Mark Strand (1934), Sven Delblanc (1931), and Robertson Davies (1913). After him are Guy Gavriel Kay (1954), Robert J. Sawyer (1960), George Woodcock (1912), Farley Mowat (1921), Robert Elsie (1950), and Rachel Cusk (1967).

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