(Macmillan 1940 dj–Governor General Award for fiction)
‘Ringuet’–Philippe Panneton (1895-1966) was a native of Montreal whose ancestors first came to Three Rivers, PQ in 1640 and 1688. Panneton was a reporter, studied medicine, and became an eye specialist. The book above was first published in Paris in 1939 and received the Grand Prix du Roman there. (The title refers to the 500 foot wide and 1 mile (trente arpents–thirty acres) long river frontage of the old PQ farms with river frontage.)