Gérard Bouchard

Timeline

• 1971 – He begins teaching at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi.
• 1972 – He founds the BALSAC database
• 1976 – He founds the Société de recherches sur les populations, which became the Institut interuniversitaire de recherche sur les populations in 1994.
• 1985 – He receives the Jacques Rousseau Award of the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences.
• 1993 – he receives the Prix du Québec for his contribution to social studies.
• 1996 – He receives the, the Prix François-Xavier-Garneau, and the Prix John A. Macdonald for his work Quelques arpents d'Amérique : Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838–1971.
• 1999 – His work La Nation québécoise au futur et au passé is published.
• 2000 – He receives the Governor General Literary Award for his work Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde.
• 2001 – He receives the.
• 2001 – He receives an honorary doctorate from McGill University.
• 2002 – His first fictional work, , is published. A second novel entitled Pikauba followed in 2005.
• 2002 – Was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government.
• 2003 – His work Les Deux Chanoines – Contradiction et ambivalence dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx is published.
• 2004 – His work La pensée impuissante. Échecs et mythes nationaux canadiens-français, 1850–1960 is published.
• 2006 – He receives an honorary doctorate from the Université de Moncton.
• February 2007 – He is named co-chair, along with the philosopher Charles Taylor, of the Bouchard–Taylor Commission, a one-year Quebec commission to examine the issue of "reasonable accommodation" for minorities in the province.