Louis Armand Desrochers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Louis Armand Desrochers
- Louis Armand Desrochers (March 31, 1928 – September 28, 2015) was a Canadian lawyer.
- He served as Chancellor of the University of Alberta from 1970 to 1974.
- Desrochers was born in Montreal in 1928 and moved to Jasper, Alberta in his childhood.
- He was educated in Edmonton at the Collège des Jésuites, Collège Saint-Jean, and then at the University of Ottawa.
- He completed a law degree at the University of Alberta in 1952 and was a lawyer for Maclab Construction.
- He also served on the University of Alberta Board of Governors and worked to strengthen connections between Collège Saint-Jean and the university.
- Three years after he left his position as chancellor, the Collège was integrated as a satellite campus of the University, as the University of Alberta Faculté Saint-Jean.
- In 2001, Desrochers was named to the Alberta Order of Excellence.
- He held honorary degrees from the University of Alberta, University of Ottawa, and Laval University.
- In 1953, he Marcelle Boutin; with her he had five children.
- Desrochers died in 2015 at the age of 87.
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