Herménégilde Chiasson, OC, ONB,
artist, poet, playwright, film director, lieutenant-governor of New
Brunswick (born 7 April 1946 in Saint-Simon, NB). An Officer of the
Order of Canada, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and
New Brunswick's 29th lieutenant-governor, Chiasson is considered the
father of Acadian modernism and is one of Canada's foremost advocates of
Acadian culture and the arts. He is also notable for his insistence
upon Acadian culture being a living culture rather than a persecuted and
exiled one.
