- Jacques Viger
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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = Jacques Viger
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order = 1st Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1833
term_end = 1836
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successor =Peter McGill
birth_date =May 7 ,1787
birth_place =Montreal ,Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1858|12|12|1787|5|7
death_place =Montreal ,Lower Canada
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profession =antiquarian ,archaeologist
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footnotes =Jacques Viger (
May 7 ,1787 –December 12 ,1858 ) was an antiquarian, archaeologist, and the first mayor of the Canadian city ofMontreal ,Quebec .Viger was born in Montreal, the son of Jacques Viger who represented Kent in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, and studied at the Sulpician college of Montreal. He served as captain in the
Canadian Voltigeurs unit underCharles de Salaberry during theWar of 1812 . He was elected the first mayor of Montreal in 1833 and worked to improve its sanitary conditions. Although he wrote little, his reputation as an archaeologist was universal, and the greatest contemporary historians of France and the United States have drawn from his collection of manuscripts, based on forty years of research. He compiled a chronicle under the title of "Sabretache" (28 vols.), wherein he gathered plans, maps, portraits, and valuable notes illustrating many contested historical points. He was the founder of theHistorical Society of Montreal .Pope Pius IX honoured him with the knighthood of theOrder of St. Gregory the Great .He died
December 12 ,1858 at age 71. The Édifice Jacques-Viger and Viger Square in Montreal are named in his honour.See also
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List of Presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal References
* Robert, Jean-Claude. « [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4235 Viger, Jacques] », in "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online", University of Toronto and Université Laval, 2000
* Ville de Montréal. [http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/viger/ Jacques Viger — "L'Album Viger : Souvenirs canadiens"] [online exposition]
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