Jean-Pierre Wallot (May 22, 1935 – August 30, 2010) was a
Canadian
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historian, educator, civil servant and former
National Archivist of Canada.
Born in
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Regional County Municipality of Beauharnois-Salaberry.
The population as of 2019 was 42,410. Situated on Grande-Île, an island in the Saint Lawrence River, it is bordere ...
,
Quebec
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, he graduated from the
Université de Montréal
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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
UNESCO
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's
Memory of the World Programme
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.
He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
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in 1978 and served as the President from 1997 to 1999.
In 1991, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the ...
.
References
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1935 births
2010 deaths
Canadian archivists
20th-century Canadian historians
Canadian male non-fiction writers
Canadian university and college vice-presidents
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
Academics in Quebec
Historians from Quebec
Université de Montréal alumni
Academic staff of the Université de Montréal
People from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association