Canadian Century Research Infrastructure

Infrastructure de recherche sur le Canada au 20e siècle

CCRI Co-Leader: Québec

Director of the Geographic History Laboratory
Université Laval

Dr. St-Hilaire, Director of the Geographic History Laboratory and, until recently, Co-Director of Université Laval's Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises (CIEQ). Together with S. Courville, C. Bellavance and N. Séguin, Dr. St-Hilaire has been directing a long-term project: l'Atlas historique du Québec. He has extensive expertise in building and managing vast databases of historical data on populations and habitat (censuses, population records, assessment rolls) and in Geographic Information System analysis. He is a specialist in population geography, and his current research is on the settlement of rural areas, inter-regional migration patterns and the social geography of towns in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to overseeing the input of census data, he will, together with his colleagues in Trois-Rivières and Toronto, supervise the cartography of social data under the CCRI project.

E-Mail: Marc.St-Hilaire@qqr.ulaval.ca
Telephone: (418) 656-2131 ext. 3770