16 Facts About Marcel Trudel

Marcel Trudel brought academic rigour to an area that had been marked by nationalistic and religious biases.

Marcel Trudel's work was part of the marked changes to Quebec society during the Quiet Revolution.

Marcel Trudel was born in Saint-Narcisse-de-Champlain, Quebec, northeast of Trois-Rivieres, the son of Hermyle Trudel and Antoinette Cossette, the ninth of eleven children.

Marcel Trudel showed great academic progress and spent some months at a seminary at Trois-Rivieres, but concluded that the priesthood was not for him.

Marcel Trudel earned a licence es lettres in 1941 and a Doctorat es lettres in 1945, both from Universite Laval.

Marcel Trudel then had two years of post-doctoral studies at Harvard University before returning to Laval to teach history.

In 1947, Marcel Trudel was the first professor of history in Laval's newly founded Institute of History.

Marcel Trudel went on to become head of the History department.

Marcel Trudel served as the Associate General Editor from 1961 to 1965, working with the General Editor, George Williams Brown, a historian at the University of Toronto.

In 1965, Marcel Trudel left Laval University and Quebec City to live near Ottawa and taught at Carleton University.

Marcel Trudel meticulously reviewed the primary sources and criticized previous accounts in his effort to tell the colony's story without what he viewed as pious or nationalist bias.

In 1942, Marcel Trudel married Anne Chretien, with whom he had three children.

Marcel Trudel married again in 1970, to Micheline D'Allaire, who was a professor of history at the University of Ottawa.

Marcel Trudel died at the age of 93 on January 11,2011, of generalized cancer.

Marcel Trudel left his three children, plus six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Marcel Trudel worked primarily in French, but some of his works appeared in English, via translation.