# Benjamin Sulte

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**Benjamin Sulte** (September 17, 1841 – August 6, 1923), baptized Olivier-Benjamin Vadeboncœur, was a Canadian journalist, writer, civil servant, and historian.

Born in [Trois-Rivières](/source/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res), [Lower Canada](/source/Lower_Canada) (now [Quebec](/source/Quebec)), to Benjamin Sulte dit Vadeboncœur, and Marie-Antoinette Lefebvre, Sulte had to leave school in 1851 as a consequence of the death of his father in 1847. He held a variety of jobs including working in a dry goods shop, as a clerk in a grocer's shop, as a bookkeeper for lumber merchants, as a paymaster on a steamship, and as an owner of a shop on a [Grand Trunk Railway](/source/Grand_Trunk_Railway) line.

In 1861, he joined the militia eventually becoming a sergeant-major. In 1866, he was appointed editor of *Le Canada*, a Conservative Ottawa newspaper. In 1867, he became a translator in the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada). In 1870, he started working for the Department of Militia and Defence eventually becoming chief clerk in 1889. He retired in 1903. In 1871, he married Augustine Parent, daughter of [Étienne Parent](/source/%C3%89tienne_Parent).

He wrote poems, songs, and was a historian.

In 1882 he was appointed a charter member of the [Royal Society of Canada](/source/Royal_Society_of_Canada), and served as its president from 1904 to 1905. In 1916, he was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the [University of Toronto](/source/University_of_Toronto).

## Selected works

- *Les Laurentiennes: poésies* (Montréal, 1869)
- *Histoire de la ville des Trois-Rivières et de ses environs* (Montréal, 1870)
- *Mélanges d'histoire et de littérature* (Ottawa, 1876)
- *Chants nouveaux* (Ottawa, 1880)
- *Histoire des Canadiens-français, 1608–1880: origine, histoire, religion, guerres, découvertes, colonisation, coutumes, vie domestique, sociale et politique, développement, avenir* (8 volumes, 1882-1884)
- *Mélanges Historiques : Études éparses et inédites* (21 vols. Montreal 1918)
- "[The French-Canadians and the Empire](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Empire_and_the_century%2FThe_French-Canadians_and_the_Empire)". *The Empire and the century*. London: John Murray. 1905. pp. 420–423.

## External links

- *[Gravures dans l'Histoire des Canadiens-Français de Benjamin Sulte](http://rd.uqam.ca/Sulte/)*, Web Robert DEROME, professeur honoraire d'histoire de l'art, Université du Québec à Montréal.

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