astronomy

Marie-Victorin Kirouac

Marie-Victorin Kirouac is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marie-Victorin Kirouac rather than just read about it. In short: Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C. (French pronunciation: [maʁi viktɔʁɛ̃]; April 3, 1885 – July 15, 1944), was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada.

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Reference excerpt

Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C. (French pronunciation: [maʁi viktɔʁɛ̃]; April 3, 1885 – July 15, 1944), was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada. Marie-Victorin gained worldwide fame as the author of Flore laurentienne and father of the Botanical Garden of Montreal.

Biography He was born Joseph-Louis-Conrad Kirouac to Cyrille Kirouac, a wealthy merchant, and Philomène Luneau in, Kingsey Falls, Quebec. Prior to taking religious vows and becoming Brother Marie-Victorin, he was known as Conrad. Although Brother Victorin is on record as having suggested that Montreal build its own botanical gardens as early as 1919, the Garden was not authorized until 1929 when Montreal Mayor Camillien Houde approved it, with construction beginning in 1931. Subsequent administrations, both municipal and provincial, opposed the Garden as a boondoggle; however, Brother Victorin continued to champion its cause, promoting it at every opportunity, leading specimen-collection expeditions, recruiting Henry Teuscher as its designer, and protecting it from being converted into a military flight school, even during the Second World War. Brother Victorin is also known for his writings: his Flore laurentienne is a botanical record of all species indigenous to southern Quebec, and was the first such record to be compiled. He also wrote the preface to an historical biography of another fifth cousin, Zephirin Paquet. Sa famille, sa Vie, son Oeuvre. Essai de Monographie Familiale, par frère Alcas. Brother Victorin died in Montreal in a car accident in July 1944, and he was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal. A building at the Université de Montréal, where he had taught botany, was subsequently named for him.

Tribute

Brother Marie-Victorin is one of the most honored Quebec personalities of the 20th century. At the Commission toponymy Quebec, a query on Marie-Victorin gives 69 results: mountains, lakes, roads, parks, buildings, etc., honor his memory. The Marie-Victorin Rosa (Rose), developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, was named in his honour. To honour the centennial of his birth in 1985, a park was established in his hometown of Kingsey Falls, named Parc Marie-Victorin. Originally 3 acres, it has expanded to nearly 30 acres, with volunteers and a small permanent staff. The park has been a leader in the province for horticultural development in the green movement. In the early 1990s, a private high school in Montréal was opened and named for him. The school is still open but its name was changed in 2006. Bro. Victorin has been inducted as a member of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. He is fictionalized as a central character in André Forcier's 2019 film Forgotten Flowers (Les fleurs oubliées), in which he is portrayed by Yves Jacques. He is also portrayed by Alexandre Goyette in Lyne Charlebois's 2023 film Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles).

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External links

Audet, Louis-Philippe Marie-Victorin. Ses idées pédagogiques, (Québecc Éditions de l'Érable, 1942) (French) Audet, R. (2015). Frère Marie-Victorin, environnementaliste. Bulletin d'histoire politique, p. 17 (French) Billings, E. (Elkanah), 1820-1876. Catalogues of the Silurian Fossils of the Island of Anticosti: With Descriptions of Some New Genera and Species. Montréal: Dawson Brothers, 1866. Cegep Marie-Victorin, The Intercultural and International Education Centre Guédon, J.-C. «Du bon usage de la vulgarisation: le cas de Marie Victorin», Questions de culture, (1981) (French) Kirouac Family Association Inc. (French)] Kirouac, Frère Marie-Victorin (1885–1944), Anticosti, land with immense spaces, the sea all around, and a social world of the 1920s gone forever. Anticosti/UdeM archives, 14 photos (French) Archive | Brother Marie-Victorin: a heritage between nature and literature, quotes, analyses, audio documents, Radio-Canada Info, July 2019 Marie-Victorin herbarium – Herbier Marie-Victorin (Wikipedia French) Rumilly, Robert Le Frère Marie-Victorin et son temps (Montréal, Frères des Écoles chrétiennes, 1949) (French) From Conrad Kirouac at Marie-Victorin, Université de Montréal (French)

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Marie-Victorin Kirouac

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Marie-Victorin Kirouac claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Marie-Victorin Kirouac before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marie-Victorin Kirouac ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marie-Victorin Kirouac

In research: Marie-Victorin Kirouac appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marie-Victorin Kirouac in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marie-Victorin Kirouac is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1885 births, 1944 deaths, 20th-century Canadian botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Marie-Victorin Kirouac outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Marie-Victorin Kirouac matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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