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Pierre-Aurèle Asselin
Canadian opera singer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pierre-Aurèle Asselin (1881–1964) was a French Canadian furrier and tenor singer. Asselin came from a musical family; he was the brother of mezzo-soprano Marie-Anne Asselin and great uncle of pianist André Asselin.
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Asselin was born in the town of Sainte-Famille on Île d'Orléans in 1881.[1] He moved with his family to Montreal around 1901,[2] and, in 1903, he married Cora Laviolette in Notre-Dame cathedral.