Sulte, Benjamin National Historic Person

Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Benjamin Sulte © Royal Society Portraits / Library and Archives Canada / C-001589
Benjamin Sulte
© Royal Society Portraits / Library and Archives Canada / C-001589
Officers of the Canadian Club of Ottawa (Bottom row, L-R): Peter Whelan, W.W. Campbell, Benjamin Sulte, Crawford Ross. (Centre row, L-R): W.J. Gerald, Plunket B. Taylor, W.L. Mackenzie King (President), Gerald H. Brown, J. Lyons Biggar. (Top row, L-R): A. © William James Topley / Library and Archives Canada / PA-012226Benjamin Sulte © Royal Society Portraits / Library and Archives Canada / C-001589
Address : Champlain Park, corner of Hart and Radisson Streets, Trois-Rivières, Quebec

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 1928-05-16
Life Date: 1841 to 1923

Other Name(s):
  • Sulte, Benjamin  (Designation Name)

Importance: Historian of French Canada, wrote "Histoire des Canadiens français" (1882-84)

Plaque(s)


Existing plaque:  Champlain Park, corner of Hart and Radisson Streets, Trois-Rivières, Quebec

Benjamin Sulte was born at Trois-Rivières. While a public servant in the Department of Milicia he devoted himself to the study of history, publishing, among other works: Histoire des Canadiens-Français, Histoire de la Milice canadienne-française and La Bataille de Châteauguay. Gérard Malchelosse, his bibliographer, collected and published his other works in twenty volumes (1918-34). Sulte was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882, and became its president in 1904. He died in Ottawa.