Né le 14 mai 1810 à Kilwinning (Écosse) et décédé le 5 septembre 1879 à Montréal. Après avoir acquis une formation d'imprimeur, il émigre d'abord à New York en 1831 puis à Montréal en 1832 où il pratique son métier.

Manuels

Géographie générale

Taylor, Henry. A system of the creation of our globe of the planets and the sun of our system: founded on the first chapter of Genesis, on the geology of the earth, and on the modern discoveries in that science, and the known operations of the laws of nature as evinced by the discoveries of Lavoisier and others in pneumatic chemistry. 3e éd. Montréal, J.C. Becket, 1842. xvi 155 p.

Chanson

Follenus, John. Wilhem's universal method of teaching class singing, abridged and carefully arranged. Montréal, J.C. Becket, n.d. 30 p.

Youmans, J.W. J. W. Youmans' compilation of juvenile songs: songs of the school room, nursery, &c., &c., &c.: also the beautiful cantata, "Festival of the rose", or, "A day in Arcadia", as performed at his popular juvenile concerts. Montréal, J.C. Becket, 1861. iv 148 p.

Bibliographie

1972:

Cooper, John Irving. "Becket, John C.", Marc Laterreur, Dictionnaire biographique du Canada - volume X - de 1871 à 1880 (Sainte-Foy, Les presses de l'université Laval, 1972):43.

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