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Simard Limestone
Simard is a surname from Germanic ''sig'' (victory) and ''mar'' (famous), and may refer to: * Albert Simard * Amanda Simard * Christian Simard * Claude A. Simard * Francis Simard * Georges-Honoré Simard * Mario Simard * Nathalie Simard * Raymond Simard * Réal Simard * René Simard * René Simard (health professional) * Sophie Simard * Suzanne Simard * Sylvain Simard * Télesphore Simard (mayor) * Télesphore Simard (MNA) Places *Simard, Saône-et-Loire Simard () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 565 communes of the Saône-et-Loire d ..., a commune in the French region of Bourgogne * Simard Lake (other) {{disambiguation, surname French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Simard
Albert Charles Joseph Simard ''Albert C. J. Simard(ca. 1891 — May 2, 1973New York State Journal of Medicine. (1973). United States: Medical Society of the State of New York. p. 2918 ) was a French Americans, French-American medical doctor, , active in many organizations, during and post . Serving in , Simard was seriously injured in 1914-1918 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Simard
René Claude Simard, , (born February 28, 1961) is a pop singer from Quebec. He is the older brother of Nathalie Simard. Early life Simard was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Career In 1974, René Simard was awarded the Grand Prix by Frank Sinatra at the annual Tokyo Music Festival. In Canada, he hosted the CBC Television series, ''The René Simard Show'', from 1977 to 1979. Simard is also an occasional actor. He played the henchman Stu in the 1995 film ''Kids of the Round Table''. Between 2006 and 2008, he hosted the television series '' L'heure de gloire'' on Radio-Canada. Simard was formerly managed by Guy Cloutier as well as his sister Nathalie. In 2004, Cloutier was convicted of sexually assaulting Nathalie when she was a child. Michel Vastel's 2005 book on the case, ''Briser le silence'' (Breaking the Silence), alleged that René co-operated with Cloutier in trying to hide the assaults. In 2005, Simard made a public statement in which he denied this. In 1999 he briefly play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simard, Saône-et-Loire
Simard () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department The following is a list of the 565 communes of the Saône-et-Loire department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Saône-et-Loire {{SaôneLoire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Télesphore Simard (MNA)
Télesphore Simard (19 December 1863 – 1 October 1924) was a Canadian politician, the member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Témiscamingue riding from 1916 until his death in office in 1924. Educated at the Séminaire de Québec and the Université Laval, Simard went on to work as a surveyor for the Government of Quebec A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a .... Simard Lake in northwestern Quebec was named in his honour.Source: "Noms et lieux du Québec" (Names and places in Quebec), a work of "Commission de toponymie du Québec" (Toponymic Board of Quebec), published in 1994 and 1996 as of an illustrated dictionary, and on CD-ROM produced by Micro-Intel, in 1997, from this printed dictionary. References Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 1863 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Télesphore Simard (mayor)
Télesphore Simard (1878–1955)Louis-Marie Côté, Carmelle Gauvin, Gérald Sirois, ''Les maires de la Vieille Capitale'', Société historique de Québec, Québec, 1980, p. 72-73. was a Canadian businessman and politician, serving as mayor of Quebec City from December 1927 to March 1928. Biography He was the son of Louis Simard and Isabelle Brown. He studied at académie commerciale. After working in different stores, he opened in 1911 his own business, Simard et Carmichaël. He prospered and later bought the Syndicat de Lévis and several other stores in the clothing business. He was elected without opposition to the charge of alderman (''échevin'') in the Saint-Roch ward of Québec in the 1924 election and again in the 1926 election. After the resignation of mayor Valmont Martin, Simard became mayor when the city council chose him on 6 December 1927, to complete the mayoral term of office ending 1 March 1928. During his short administration, the city adopted bylaws f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Simard
Sylvain Simard (born April 26, 1945) is a politician and academic based in the Canadian province of Quebec. He represented Richelieu in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 2012, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. Simard is a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). Early life and career Simard was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from the Université de Montréal (1967), a Master of Arts degree from McGill University (1970), and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Bordeaux in France (1975). From 1976 to 1994, he was a professor of French literature at the University of Ottawa. He completed a work entitled ''Mythe et reflet de la France: L'image du Canada en France'' in 1987, examining perceptions of Quebec in France from the time of Louis Napoleon to World War I. Simard's brother, Christian Simard, was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard (born 1960)Cori Vanchierim'An ecologist’s new book gets at the root of trees’ social lives,' Science News 28 June 2021 is a Canadian scientist who is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. After growing up in the Monashee Mountains, British Columbia, she received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University. Prior to teaching at the University of British Columbia, Simard worked as a research scientist at the British Columbia Ministry of Forests. Simard is best known for the research she conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem. Within the communication between trees and plants is the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients and defense signals between trees. Simard is also a leader of TerreWEB, an initiative set to train graduate stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Simard
Sophie Simard (born September 20, 1978) is an international freestyle and butterfly swimmer who competed for Canada at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she swam in the preliminary heats of the 4x200-metre freestyle relay, alongside Joanne Malar, Marianne Limpert, and Jessica Deglau. In the final she and Malar were replaced by Shannon Shakespeare and Andrea Schwartz. The resident of Sainte-Foy, Quebec was also a member of the Canadian national swimming team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ... in Melbourne, Australia. References Sophie Simard Bio, Stats, and Results , Olympics at Sports-Reference.com 1978 births Living people Canadian female butterfly swimmers Canadian female freestyle swimmers Olympic swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Simard (health Professional)
René Simard, (born October 4, 1935) is a Canadians, Canadian physician, cancer researcher and university administrator. Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts from College Saint-Laurent in 1956 and a Doctor of Medicine from the Université de Montréal in 1962. He did his Residency (medicine), residency in pathology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and he received a Doctor of Science from the University of Paris in 1968. Career From 1993 to 1998, he was the rector of the Université de Montréal. He is a co-author of ''On Being Human: Where Ethics, Medicine and Spirituality Converge''. Honours In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. References * 1935 births Living people Canadian university and college chief executives Canadian medical researchers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the Order of Canada People from Montreal French Quebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réal Simard
Réal Simard (born 7 January 1951) is a Canadian gangster from Montreal known for being a hitman for Frank Cotroni of the Cotroni crime family, who later turned informant. Early career In Simard's early days, he robbed banks with childhood friend Raymond Martel, but Martel was caught in a heist, while Simard avoided arrest.Schneider, ''Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada'', pp. 527 Another bank-robbing accomplice of Simard, Jean-Paul Saint-Armand, was arrested and turned informant, which sentenced Simard to six years in prison. Simard is the nephew of Armand Courville, a long-time associate of Frank Cotroni's older brother Vic Cotroni. While Simard was in prison, he met leader of the family, Frank Cotroni, acting for his brother who was ill with cancer; he would become Frank's driver and eventual hitman upon their release in 1979. Simard considered Frank an uncle figure. By his own admission, a morally weak character who was emotionally needy and felt a desperate need to fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Simard
Amanda Simard is the former MPP for Glengarry—Prescott—Russell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 42nd Parliament of Ontario. Simard was elected in the 2018 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, but left the PC caucus on November 29, 2018 after Ontario premier Doug Ford eliminated the province's French-language services commissioner and cancelled plans for a new French language university. On January 16, 2020, Simard joined the Ontario Liberal Party. She lost her seat in the 2022 Ontario general election. During the 2022 provincial election Simard was defeated by Stéphane Sarrazin. She is president of the International Network of Young Parliamentarians. Early life Simard grew up in Embrun, Ontario, in her riding, where she lives along with her family, who have been there for centuries. She worked throughout her high school, college, and university years, and worked full-time while simultaneously attending law school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Simard
Raymond Simard, (born March 8, 1958) is a politician from Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2002 to 2008, representing the riding of Saint Boniface for the Liberal Party of Canada. Simard was born in Ste. Anne, Manitoba. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College universitaire de Saint-Boniface, as well as a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba. Simard worked as a businessman and consultant before entering political life, initially for a number of business concerns owned by his family. In 1999, he became the founding President and CEO of ''Riel Economic Development Corporation'', and is also the President and co-owner of ''Simard Solutions''. In 2002, sitting Saint Boniface MP Ron Duhamel was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Simard was selected as the Liberal candidate for the resulting by-election, and on May 13, 2002, he defeated Canadian Alliance candidate Denis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |