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Biographical note
Raymond Ostiguy, born in Montreal in 1942, moves with his family to Ottawa in 1948. After obtaining a B.A. from Carleton University in 1963, he attends Queen’s University in Kingston to obtain an L.L.B. in 1966. Called to the Bar in 1968, he practices for five years in Windsor, Ontario, where he also teaches law part-time at the University. Returning to Ottawa in 1972, he rejoins Gowling Lafleur Henderson where he practices Education and Municipal Law until his retirement in 2007. Heavily committed to the Canadian Bar Association throughout his career, he occupies a number of provincial and national positions, including the presidency of the Ontario Branch.
Member of numerous historical societies, since 2001 he conducts extensive research in local history allowing him to present conferences on the War of 1812 and other subjects. In September 2008, as a co-author, his society publishes Saint-Mathias, un domaine en partage, no. 32 of Les Cahiers de la seigneurie de Chambly, and again in September 2014, Le temps des Meuniers, no. 38 in the series. In September 2013, Les Éditions Histoire Québec publishes his Chambly et la guerre de 1812-1814, l’année 1812, and in 2015, with Georges Aubin, his Louis-Joseph Papineau, les débuts, 1808-1815.