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Marie-Victorin
Brother Marie-Victorin (born Conrad Kirouac, April 4 1885 in Kingsey Falls, Quebec - July 1944) was a Christian Brother and botanist, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal. Although Marie-Victorin is on record as having suggested that Montreal build its own botanical gardens as early as 1919, the Jardin was only authorized by Montreal mayor Camillien Houde in 1929, and work only began on construction in 1931.
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