168 YALE FOREST SCHOOL 

Gustave C. Piché 
1 
Business address, Care of the Department of Lands and Forests, Quebec, 
Canada 
Residence, 64 St. Cyrille Street, Quebec, Canada 
Gustave Clodomir Piché was born December 2, 1880, in Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada, the son of Clodomir Piché (died in 1882), and Marie (Heppel) 
Piché. His father was a descendant of the first French settlers that 
arrived in Canada about 1663. His mother was married a second time, 
in 1887, to D. Villeneuve of Berthierville, Quebec. Her ancestor, Pierre 
Heppel, who came to Quebec in 1792, was a surgeon in Lafayette’s 
army. He has a step-sister, Eva (Villeneuve) Piette, of Berthierville. 
He graduated from Mount Saint Louis in 1897, after which he was 
employed three years as a clerk on the Canadian Pacific Railway and 
then in the Belgo-Canadian Company, where he was in charge of the 
wood department from 1900 to 1903. From 1903 to 1905 he attended 
the Polytechnical School of Montreal. 
He was married September 24, 1907, in Montreal, Quebec, to Miss 
Césarine P. Paré of Montreal, daughter of Cyrille Paré and Doriméne 
Le Noblet (Duplessis) Paré. They have four daughters: Claudette Piché, 
born June 15, 1908, in Berthierville, Quebec; Simone Piché, born August 
21, 1900, in Quebec; Pierrette Piché, born December 12, 1910, in Quebec, 
and Marie-Paule Piché, born May 31, 1912, in Quebec. 
In 1907, Piché entered the Forest Service in Quebec as 
forestry engineer and in 1909 became chief forestry engineer. 
In 1910, he received the appointments of chief of the Forest Ser- 
vice and director of the Ecole Forestiére of Quebec, his present 
positions. He writes: “Visited France, Italy, Germany and 
Sweden in 1909-10, on the account of the Quebec government. 
In 1908, worked at the inventory of the Riding Mountain Forest 
Reserve in Manitoba. Since 1907, I have visited every section 
of the Province to investigate the forest and agricultural con- 
ditions. These reports are filed in the Department of Lands and 
Forests.” 
He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church. He is a 
member of the American and Canadian Forestry associations, 
the Canadian Society of Forestry Engineers, the French, Belgian 
and Swiss societies of forestry, the Alliance Nationale (a 
benevolent society) and in 1913 was elected an associate member 
of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers. 

