Jean-Pierre Wallot (May 22, 1935 – August 30, 2010) was a

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historian, educator, civil servant and former National Archivist of Canada. Born in

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, he graduated from the

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in 1954. He also received a Master's and Doctorate from the same university. Wallot worked as a journalist from 1954 to 1960. From 1966 to 1969, he was a historian with the National Museum of Man in Ottawa. He has held a number of senior administrative positions at the Université de Montréal including Chairman, Department of History (1973–1975), Vice-Dean Studies (1975–1978) and Vice-Dean Research (1979–1982) in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-President Academic (1982–1985). From 1985 until 1997, he was National Archivist and from 1993-1998 served as the first chairperson of

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1978 and served as the President from 1997 to 1999. In 1991, he was made an Officer of the

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