French-Canadian historian best known for his immense and incomplete study Histoire de la province de Québec, 34 vol. (1940–63; “History of the Province of Quebec”). Educated in France, he served in the French Army during World War I, then emigrated to Canada in 1928. He became a supporter of the French cultural movement in Quebec, as well as a noted historian and biographer. His works include Histoire des Acadiens, 2 vol. (1955; “History of the Acadians”) and Histoire des Franco-Américains (1958; “History of the French-Americans”).