Roger Lagassé is a district principal for aboriginal education, librarian, [[teacher and author. He co-authored several French children's books published by Éditions des Plaines in Manitoba, Canada: la Petite jument blanche, 1981, Le Sorcier, 1986; Tit-Jean l'intrépide, 1993. In 1990 he paddled a single kayak from Sechelt to Nanaimo, BC in the Save Georgia Strait Marathon to bring attention to environmental and nuclear weapons issues. He also helped establish Tetrahedron Provincial Park and Spipiyus Provincial Park and, as part of the Friends of Caren, helped find the first active marbled murrelet nest in Canada. Lagassé also planned and taught a Francophone public school online course in BC First Nations Studies for secondary school students in British Columbia starting in 2007.