Marie Jean-Eudes

Sister Jean-Marie Eudes, born Marie-Bernadette Tellier (born in 1897 in Saint-Damien, died in 1981) was a botanist and a nun of the Sisters of Saint Ann. She worked on the popularization of science and published several papers in biology, geology and botany. She is considered a pioneer in the study of natural sciences in Quebec.^{[citation needed]}

A former student of Brother Marie-Victorin, between 1925 and 1931, she studied at the Botanical Institute of the University of Montreal. In 1943 she completed a Masters degree in botany. Her thesis was entitled “La flore de Rawdon”. As part of her research project she has put together an herbarium of over 1,200 species. In 1931 she became coordinator of the Cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes division of the Soeurs de Sainte-Anne community. Furthermore she organized a Natural History museum in Lachine which was donated to the Cité-des-Jeunes highschool in Vaudreuil, Qc. In 1963 she started working on a monograph about the “Cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes” which was published in 1981.

References

• Noms et lieux du Québec, ouvrage de la Commission de toponymie paru en 1994 et 1996 sous la forme d'un dictionnaire illustré imprimé, et sous celle d'un cédérom réalisé par la société Micro-Intel, en1997, à partir de ce dictionnaire.
• Jean-Eudes, Marie, Les cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes, Éditions Sainte-Anne, Lachine, 1981.