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ERNEST CORMIER ​ Ernest Cormier a Canadian scientist born on December 5, 1885. He died on January 1, 1980. I think that Ernest Cormier should be listed in the Canadian hall of fame because of all the wonderful works he has done in the Canadian community. Ernest Cormier was born in Canada he grew up in Montreal Canada where he spent much of his career, erecting notable examples of Art Deco architecture. First he graduated as an engineer from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and then studied at the [|__Ecole des Beaux Arts__] in Paris where he received the Prix de Rome in 1914. His major work is the central building of the Universite de Montreal on the North slope of Mount Royal. It is a huge example of the Art Deco style. Ibetween __/__wiki/Ecole_des_Beaux Arts in __Paris.__ There he received the Prix de Rome in 1914. Cormier's major work is the central building of the [|Université de Montréal] on the North slope of [|Mount Royal]. This huge example of the Art Deco style was built between WWI and the middle of WWII and was kept in a nearly pristine shape over the decades. the only major destruction of his designs took place within the interior spaces. They occured in the 19070s when the great multistory hall of the central library was filled up with several smaller, one story rooms for the faculty of medicine and its library. Another good example of Cormier's work can be found on another Quebec university campus, the Casault pavillion of [|Université]__ Laval ,__ familiarly known by students as the Louis-Jacques. Designed in 1948 but only completed in 1960, it is a massive cathedral like building, orignally designed as Quebec City's Grand Seminaire (QCGS), which is particularly spetacular viewed from a distance along the impressive mall that runs along the East-Coast axis of the campus grounds. One of Cormier's building has now become the most recognized landmark of the second oldest university in North America and home to Laval's faculties of Music and Communications, as well as to Quebec's National Archieves. His own house, on Montreal's avenue des Pins, is one of the most finest examples of an Art Deco home in the world. This building was purchased by ​[|Pierre Trudeau] and he lived there following his retirements until his death in 2000. Cormier is also responsible for the magnificent [|Supreme Court of Canada] building in Ottawa and was a design consultant for the United Nations building in New York. In addition to showing a great balance, in most of his buildings, between the disciplines of engineering and architecture, Cormier also had left us many stunning renderings of his works, done in the planning stages. In 1974, Cormier was inducted into the [|Order of Canada] by [|Governor General] [|Jules Léger], and received numerous honours and awards. the The [|Édifice Ernest-Cormier], the [|Quebec Court of Appeal] building in [|Old Montreal], is named in his honour. I think Ernest Cormier should be inducted in the Canadian Scientist Hall of Fame. Mainly because he had done a lot of work for the Canadian society. He's a born and raised Canadian who have done most of his studies in Canada and have done most of his engineering work in and for Canada, so I think for all of those things he have done, he should be inducted in the Canadian Scientist Hall of Fame.

Troy Laguerre