Barbeau, Marius

BARBEAU, Marius, anthropologist (b 5 Mar 1883, Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, QC; d 27 Feb 1969, Ottawa). He was the first native-born anthropologist to work in the field in Canada. After studying law at Laval Univ he won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he became interested in anthropology. On his return to Canada in 1910 he got a job as an ethnologist in the anthropology division of the Geological Survey of Canada, later the National Museum of Man and still later the Canadian Museum of...

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