Ernest Rouleau (1916–1991) was a Canadian

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specialist of

Eastern Canada Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of the Hudson Bay/Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newfoundland and Labrador, ...

flora, in particular that of

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. He studied under

Marie-Victorin Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C. (April 3, 1885 – July 15, 1944), was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada. He is known as the father of the Botanical Garden of Montreal. Biograph ...

, of which he published the second, enlarged and revised edition of the ''Flore Laurentienne'', and under Fernald, whose '' Gray's Manual of Botany'' (8th edition) he also revised. His ''Atlas of the vascular plants of the island of Newfoundland and of the islands of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon'' is the only comprehensive flora of either areas. He died in 1991 of

pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severity ...

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Décès d'Ernest Rouleau, important collaborateur du frère Marie-Victorin (1916-1991)
Gisèle Lamoureux

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rouleau, Ernest 20th-century Canadian botanists 1916 births 1991 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in Quebec