GERIN-LAJOIE, ANTOINE (1824-1882), Canadian writer, was born at Yamachiche in 1824, and died at Ottawa on Aug. 4, 1882. He was educated at the College de Nicolet. In he was employed as proof-reader on La Minerve, and soon rose to be its editor. At the same time he pursued legal studies, and was called to the bar, afterwards entering the civil service. In 1856 he was made librarian to the parliament. At Quebec, where the parliament was held after 1859, he was one of the founders of Soirees Canadiennes (see CREMAZIE, OCTAVE), and of the Foyer Canadien; in these magazines he published his Jean Rivard (1862-64), a novel of pioneer life. He also wrote Dix ans d'Histoire du Canada (1888) . But he is best known for the almost national poem, Un Canadien, written at a time when many Cana dians were being forced, by the upheavals of 1837, to emigrate to the United States.