37 Canadian writers in French

This is a list of Canadian women writers in French who were born in Canada or whose writings in French are closely associated with that country.

François-Réal Angers was a lawyer and writer from Quebec, Canada. He was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles into a family of farmers.

Charles Marius Barbeau,, also known as C. Marius Barbeau, or more commonly simply Marius Barbeau, was a Canadian ethnographer and folklorist who is today considered a founder of Canadian anthropology. A Rhodes Scholar, he is best known for an early championing of Québecois folk culture, and for his exhaustive cataloguing of the social organization, narrative and musical traditions, and plastic arts of the Tsimshianic-speaking peoples in British Columbia, and other Northwest Coast peoples. He developed unconventional theories about the peopling of the Americas.

Victor Barbeau, was a Quebec writer and academic.

Julie Barlow is a Canadian journalist, author and conference speaker who writes and publishes both in English and French and is based in Montreal, Quebec.

Laurent Barré was a Quebec author, politician and Cabinet Minister for 16 years.

Élisabeth Bégon née Marie-Isabelle-Élisabeth Rocbert de la Morandière, was a French-Canadian letter writer. She is known for the correspondence she wrote to her son-in-law that described the daily life of a French laywoman in New France between 1748 and 1753.

Serge Bouchard is a Canadian anthropologist and writer from Quebec, who won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 2017 Governor General's Awards for his book Les Yeux tristes de mon camion.

Louis-Ovide Brunet was a French-Canadian botanist and Roman Catholic priest, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Canadian botany.

Michel Brunet was a Quebec historian and essayist. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the Université de Montréal and received his Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Henri-Raymond Casgrain was a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest, author, publisher, and professor of history.

Sir Joseph Amable Thomas Chapais was a French Canadian author, editor, historian, journalist, professor, and politician.

Claude Cossette is an advertising man and a scholar born in Quebec City, Quebec in 1937. He founded Cossette Communication Group in 1964, which he restructured in 1972 making his five top executives his equal partners. He headed the business as President until he resigned in 1982. At the time, the agency was the biggest communication organization in the Province of Quebec with offices in Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.

Élise Desaulniers is an author, writer, journalist, vegan and an advocate for animal welfare and animal rights. Her writings have aroused considerable controversy in Quebec, with its large dairy industry.

Brother Jean-Paul Desbiens, Frère Pierre-Jérôme, F.M.S., OC was a Quebec writer, journalist, teacher and member of the Catholic institute of Marist Brothers.

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Ferland was a French Canadian historian.

Gabriel Franchère was a French Canadian author and explorer of the Pacific Northwest.

Éric Gauthier is a quebecois author who was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec.

Réal Godbout is a Quebec writer and comic book illustrator, best known for his Michel Risque and Red Ketchup series which he co-created with his long-time friend Pierre Fournier.

Jean Hébert is a Canadian International Master of chess, an International Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, and a chess writer, journalist, and commentator. He is the 2009 Canadian chess champion, a title he first won in 1978. He tied for this title in 2007 as well, but lost in playoffs. He represented Canada at the 1979 Interzonal tournament, as well as seven times in chess Olympiads. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2009 and was knocked out by Peter Svidler in the first round.

Victor-Alphonse Huard was a French-Canadian churchman, naturalist, writer and editor. He was a popular educator and promoter of the natural sciences, although his anti-evolutionist stance garnered him criticism both in Quebec and elsewhere. He was the founder or editor of several publications, most notably the Naturaliste Canadien, and wrote a number of manuals. Although not particularly qualified for the position, he became the first Provincial Entomologist of Quebec.

Jacques Lacoursière, is a French-speaking Canadian TV host, author and historian from the Canadian province of Quebec.

Gustave Lanctot, also spelled Gustave Lanctôt, was a Canadian historian and archivist.

Laurier L. LaPierre, was a Canadian Senator, professor, broadcaster, journalist and author. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Jean-François Lisée is a Quebec nationalist politician who served as the leader of the Parti Québécois from October 2016 until October 2018. He was first elected a member of the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 Quebec election in the electoral district of Rosemont.

Geneviève McKenzie-Sioui, sometimes performing under the name Shanipiap, is an Innu musician, writer, television creator, and activist in Quebec. Born in Matimekosh in 1956, she later relocated to Wendake. She is a singer-songwriter in the Innu language, and an author in both Innu and in French, has been the producer/director/presenter of her own children's television program on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and TFO, and has recently been active in the Idle No More movement.

Yves Meynard is a Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer. He writes in both English and French.

Esdras Minville was a Quebec writer, economist and sociologist. He served as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Université de Montréal, and was the first French-Canadian to serve as head of HEC Montréal. A staunch defender of Catholic social doctrine, Minville helped to found several co-operatives in the province.

Édouard Montpetit was a Quebec lawyer, economist and academic.

Jean-Benoît Nadeau is a Canadian author, journalist, and lecturer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.

Corinne P. Beauchemin, known better by her pen name, Moïsette Olier was a Canadian writer from Quebec.

Steve Requin is a Canadian cartoonist from Beloeil, Quebec, Canada.

Narcisse Henri Édouard Faucher was a Canadian author, journalist, army officer, and politician who published books under the name Faucher de Saint-Maurice.

Jean-Louis Trudel is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and has lived in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal before moving to Quebec City, Quebec in 2010. He teaches history part-time at the University of Ottawa.

Michel Vastel was a Québécois journalist and columnist for Le Journal de Montréal and other medias. He was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles, Eure, France and immigrated to Canada in 1970.

Denis Vaugeois is a French-speaking author, publisher and historian from Quebec, Canada. He also served as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) from 1976 to 1985.

Michel Venne is a Quebec journalist, author and intellectual. He is a columnist for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. He is founder and director of the Institut du Nouveau Monde. Venne is a vocal advocate of Quebec independence and of progressive, social democratic politics.