Marie-Victorin Statue
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The Marie-Victorin Statue is a monument
Monuments and memorials in Montreal
This is a list public art in Montreal.-List organized alphabetically:*Ahuntsic Statue, Montreal*Brother Andre Statue*Norman Bethune Memorial *Black Rock, Montreal*Boer War Memorial *Ignace Bourget Monument...

 in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

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The monument to Marie-Victorin
Marie-Victorin
Brother Marie-Victorin was a De La Salle Christian Brother and botanist in Quebec, Canada, best known as the father of the Jardin botanique de Montréal....

 was unveiled by Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Duplessis
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis served as the 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. A founder and leader of the highly conservative Union Nationale party, he rose to power after exposing the misconduct and patronage of Liberal Premier Louis-Alexandre...

 and Paul-Émile Léger on September 18, 1954.

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