Edouard Montpetit
See also: Edouard Montpetit (homonymy)
Edouard Montpetit (1881 - 1954), was a lawyer, economist and academic Canadian-French.
Admitted with the bar in 1904, Edouard Montpetit followed the lawyer occupation and taught the political economy before becoming, in 1907, the first stock-broker officially delegated by the province of Quebec to Paris. During its stay in this city, he studied and the Political sciences and the Social sciences, obtaining diplomas in these two fields of study. In 1920, it founded the School of social sciences of which it assumed the direction.
Between this year and 1950, it occupied several functions with the Université of Montreal, in particular those of general secretary, senior of the faculty of Social sciences, member of the academic senate and Member of the Commission of administration. He taught with the École of the high commercial studies of Montreal (HEC Montreal), of 1910 to 1939, and with the faculty of Droit, 1910 to 1954.
In 1935, the royal Société of Canada granted to Montpetit the Médaille Lorne Pierce.
In 1967, one revealed a monument with his memory on the campus of the University of Montreal and changed the name of the Maplewood avenue into that of Edouard-Montpetit boulevard.
The College Edouard-Montpetit, a CÉGEP with Longueuil (Quebec), and a station of Subway to Montreal, also bear its name.
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