McGill Library
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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Côté, Georges, 1883-1963
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Description area
Dates of existence
1883-1963
History
A native of the village of Saint-Gervais south of Quebec City, Georges Côté was a cleric and amateur filmmaker; he was ordained at the Grand Séminaire in Quebec City in 1907. He became vicar of the Quebec City parish of St.-Roch, then later the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Courville, in the Quebec City region, where he opened Quebec’s first parish cinema in 1921. Although not one of the “prêtres-cinéastes,” after he was appointed curé of the municipality of Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse in 1927, he began filming local events, a pastime he pursued throughout the 1930s. A former classmate, the anthropologist Marius Barbeau, who was collaborating with McGill University professor of architecture Ramsay Traquair, persuaded him to write a treatise, “La Vieille Église de Saint-Charles-Borromée sur la rivière Boyer (Comté Bellechasse) en 1928, à l’occasion de son centenaire.”