The Marie-Victorin Fund is a permanent fund named in honour of the founder of both the Montreal Botanical Garden and the Université de Montréal Botanical Institute (Institut botanique), now the IRBV. A portion of the fund’s revenues is used each year to offer a bursary to a Ph.D. student registered at the Université de Montréal. Donations to the Marie-Victorin Fund help support higher education and train future professionals and researchers in the field of plant biology.
Your donation to the Marie-Victorin Fund will make it possible to:
In advance, thank you for your generosity!
If you have any questions about making a donation, please contact Marie-Claude Giguère, our senior advisor. Contact: 514 343-6217 or marie-claude.giguere@umontreal.ca
Charitable registration number (Canada): 10816 0995 RR0001
By mail
Please fill out and print this form and mail it along with your donation to the following address:
Université de Montréal
Bureau du développement et des relations avec les diplômés
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7
By internet
To make your donation directly online, you can follow this link.
IMPORTANT: In the section “Fonds les plus souvent demandés”(Most popular funds) of the on-line form, check “Donner à une faculté ou un service” (Donate to a faculty or service).
A new section, “Choisir une faculté ou un département” (Select a faculty or department) will open up just below.
Write “Fonds Marie-Victorin” (Marie-Victorin Fund) in the dialog box with the instructions “Si vous désirez donner à un projet spécifique au sein d’une faculté ou d’un service, indiquez-le ici” (If you wish to make a donation to a specific project within a faculty or a service, specify the project name here ).
Born Conrad Kirouac, Brother Marie-Victorin (1885-1944) had the gift of being able to communicate his passion for science to a wide audience.
His extensive scientific inventory of the plants of Québec’s St. Lawrence River Valley was published under the title La flore laurentienne. One of the founders of ACFAS (Association canadienne française pour l’avancement des sciences) in 1923, he also supported the establishment of clubs for young naturalists (Cercles des Jeunes Naturalistes). He was a major force behind the creation of both the Montreal Botanical Garden, now ranked among the greatest botanical gardens in the world. The Université de Montréal Botanical Institute (Institut botanique de l’Université de Montréal), known today as the IRBV (Plant Biology Research Institute)., is another of his great achievements.