Joseph Médard Carrière [SEP] date of birth
Joseph Médard Carrière
Joseph Médard Carrière (1902–1970), was a Franco-Ontarian French-language scholar. 
Academic background.
One of his specialisms was folklore, and he taught for many years at the University of Virginia.
Carrière's papers are lodged in the archives of Université Laval.
Recent interest in his work.
Some of his more well-known French transcription work, which cites the storytelling of Joseph Groulx, of Tecumseh, has been recently edited in: 
- Donald Deschênes & Marcel
to remember a few phrases.
History Revival.
Periodic attempts have been made to preserve the language for the most part with minor results. At the turn of the 20th century a Belgian Creole Père Tourenhaut attempted to preserve French at the Ste. Genevieve Church but to no avail. "Tales from the French Folk-lore of Missouri" was published in 1937 by Joseph Médard Carrière which was a collection of 73 stories he had collected from the Old Mines area. The works of Miller and Carrière on the dialect helped to