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2 unusual facts about Édouard Montpetit


Édouard Montpetit

In 1967, a monument to Montpetit was unveiled on the Université de Montréal campus and the name of nearby Maplewood Avenue in Côte-des-Neiges was changed to boulevard Édouard-Montpetit.

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.



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Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.