Dr. Frédérick Montizambert National Historic Person (1843-1929)

 
A man sitting on a booth bench
Dr. Frédérick Montizambert in the cabin of the inspection ship Challenger at Grosse-Île, circa 1890
© National Archives of Canada
 

 

Dr. Frédérick Montizambert was designated a national historic person in 1998.

Commemorative plaque : Grosse-Île, QuébecFootnote 1

Frédérick Montizambert

Medical superintendent at Grosse Île for thirty years, and later responsible for all the quarantine stations in Canada, Dr. Frederick Montizambert played a pioneering role in the fields of bacteriology and epidemiology. In 1899, he became the first Director General of Public Health in the country. A forceful advocate of preventive medicine, disinfection and vaccination, he worked at a time of massive immigration to protect Canadians from the many, often-fatal contagious diseases then prevalent around the world.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
English plaque inscription
A black and white portrait of a man
Portrait of Frédérick Montizambert, date unknown.
© Topley Studio / Library and Archives Canada
A black and white portrait of a man
Portrait of Frédérick Montizambert, 1890.
© B.M Greene, éd., Who’s who in Canada
A black and white portrait of a man
Frédérick Montizambert towards the end of his life, in the 1920s, in Ottawa.
© Parks Canada / Joan Winters Doyle Collection

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