Joseph Médard Carrière (1902–1970), was an award-winning Franco-Ontarian French-language scholar.
He was most noted as a collector of French folklore from the Midwest of the United States.
[3] Carrière taught at Northwestern University, where in 1936 he became a naturalized American citizen.
In 1942 he moved to the University of Virginia, where he remained for the rest of his academic career.
[1] From 1934 to 1936[4] Carrière made a series of research trips to Old Mines, Missouri, where he collected folksongs and tales from 600 French-speaking families.
[5] The majority of the folktales he collected, were told by a French-speaking barite miner called Joseph Ben Coleman.
[1] Based on his research, Carrière published Tales from the French folk-lore of Missouri (1937).
In 1981, the tales were republished by Rosemary Hyde Thomas, with English translations.
[7] An edition of Carrière French transcription work, which cites the storytelling of Joseph Groulx, of Tecumseh, was published in 2005.
[2] Carrière was awarded a Medal de L’Academie Française in 1948[1] and he received the French title of Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur in 1950.
Tales from the French folk-lore of Missouri Northwestern University Studies in the Humanities, No.
"The Phonology of Missouri French: A Historical Study (Continued)".
"Early Examples of the Expressions ``American Language and ``Langue Américaine".