Canadian historian, born near Montreal, on the 20th of January 1782; died in Montreal on the 3rd of August 1857. He wrote a number of histories of French Canada, all in the French language. His published writings include The Canadian Library (5 vols.); a Canadian Encyclopædia; and a History of Canada under French Rule.—His son, François Marie, author and professor of law in the Montreal Jesuit College; born in Montreal, November 1824. His writings are mainly historical, and include A History of the American Savages; History of the Material and Intellectual Progress of Canada; and a Historical Dictionary of Famous Men of Canada and America.
