Monsignor Monsignor (; it, monsignore ) is an honorific form of address or title for certain male clergy members, usually members of the Roman Catholic Church. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian ''monsignore'', meaning "my lord". "Monsignor" ca ...

Joseph Thomas Arthur Maheux, SM,

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, FRSC (22 June 1884 – 30 August 1967) was a Canadian priest and historian. He was a leading proponent of Canadian unity as well as a trenchant critic of Quebec society. He was president of the Société du parler français au Canada from 1924 to 1925 and president of the

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from 1948 to 1949. Maheux was appointed an

Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

in 1943 "For patriotic work". He received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1954, the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal in 1959, and the Pierre Chauveau Medal in 1963. In 1967, he was among the first group of recipients of the

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Principal works

* ''Ton histoire est une épopée - Nos débuts sous le régime anglais'', 1941. * ''Le Canada parle à la France'', 1942. * ''Canada Victorious, Happy and Glorious'', 1943. * ''Pourquoi sommes-nous divisés?'', 1943. * ''L'Université Laval et la culture française au Canada'', 1952.

References

1884 births 1967 deaths 20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests Recipients of the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada Canadian Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian archivists Presidents of the Canadian Historical Association Université Laval alumni University of Paris alumni Academic staff of Université Laval Canadian nationalists Historians of Canada Royal Canadian Geographical Society fellows Historians from Quebec