If you put "Carignan" in the super search, there have been many mentions of him in various threads. here's one of them by Dan Milner aka "Liam's Brother:"

... few weeks ago, I found the February 17th, 1988 Montreal Gazette obituary of Jean Carignan. I'm sure sure many a Mudcatter knows that "Ti-Jean," a Montreal taxi-driver, was the most renowned Canadian fiddler of his time. About 20 years ago, I heard him play at a festival of New England and Eastern Canadian folk music at Brown University in New Hampshire. Carignan said he first learned his craft from his father and from native (Indian) fiddlers in Quebec and then he talked about the first time he heard a record of the Co. Sligo fiddle master, Michael Coleman. I remember to this day how intently he talked about that experience of hearing the fiddle played as he never had before, about how he could not sleep at all that night, about how he strove to make music like that phonograph sound.