- Édouard Montpetit
Édouard Montpetit (1881–1954) was a
Quebec lawyer, economist and academic.Biography
Called to the bar in 1904, Montpetit worked as a lawyer and taught political economy before he obtained a scholarship in 1907, which made him the first holder of such a scholarship to be officially sent by the province of Quebec to
Paris . In Paris he studied political andsocial science , receiving a degree in both. He founded the "École des sciences sociales" in 1920, which he then ran.Between 1920 and 1950 he was active at the
Université de Montréal , where he was secretary general, dean of the faculty of social sciences, member of the senate and member of the board of direction. He taught at the business school affiliated with the Université de Montréal, the École des hautes études commerciales (HEC) from 1910 to 1939, as well as at the university's law school, from 1910 to his death in 1954.Recognition
In 1935 Montpetit was awarded the
Royal Society of Canada 'sLorne Pierce Medal .In 1967, a monument to Montpetit was unveiled on the Université de Montréal campus and the name of nearby Maplewood Avenue was changed to boulevard Édouard-Montpetit.
A
CEGEP inLongueuil, Quebec (Collège Édouard-Montpetit ), a high school in the east ofMontreal and a station in theMontreal metro system are also named in his honour.Bibliography
A partial list of Montpetit's published works includes:
* "Au service de la tradition française" (1920)
* "Pour une doctrine" (1931)
* "Les cordons de la bourse" (1935)
* "Le front contre la vitre" (1936)
* "La conquête économique" (1938–1940)
* "Reflets d'Amérique" (1941)
* "Propos sur la montagne: Essais" (1946)External links
* [http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/ Collège Édouard-Montpetit] fr icon
* [http://www.stm.info/English/metro/a-m57.htm Édouard-Montpetit metro station] en icon
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