Napoléon-Alexandre Comeau

[2] He was born in Les Îlets-Jérémie (located in the municipality of Colombier), not far from Betsiamites on the North Shore of the Saint Lawrence River.

Napoleon-Alexandre Comeau spent his childhood in the woods in Labrador, at North-West River and the Mingan Islands, along with the Innu and Inuit, who taught him to hunt, fish and navigate.

[6] He became the assistant coroner (even practicing medicine, he attended the births of more than 250 newborns), before becoming, in 1879, Superintendent of Fisheries for the Canadian government.

Napoléon-Alexandre Comeau died on November 17, 1923, in Godbout, where a monument was dedicated to his memory in 1927, with the text: "Humble child of the North, he learned to read with authority in the great book of nature while serving his people and his country."

[4] From 1882, Napoleon-Alexandre Comeau developed a friendship with naturalists Elliott Coues and Hart Merriam, of the Smithsonian Institution.

That same year 1882, he became a member of the American Ornithological Union in New York before going to hunt buffalo in Wyoming with Baron Ernest de la Grange.

In 1914, he collaborated on a study by the Canadian government on fisheries in the Arctic and the tourism potential of the Hudson Bay.