Monsignor Olivier Maurault, CMG, FRSC (1 January 1886 – 14 August 1968) was a Canadian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, priest of the

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, and academic administrator. He was Rector of the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

from 1934 to 1955. He was President of the

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in 1943–1944.

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* https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=8534&type=pge * https://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1012942ar 1886 births 1968 deaths Université de Montréal Sulpicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 20th-century Canadian historians Canadian historians of religion Canadian art historians Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Canadian academic administrators Canadian librarians 20th-century Canadian Roman Catholic priests {{Academic-administrator-stub