Quebec notary, Gustave Baudoin, had an important influence on the architectural heritage of the province. It was the 1919 publication in La Revue nationale of his article, “Nos vieilles églises: la désolation des monuments historiques canadiens” that helped inspire McGill professor Ramsay Traquair’s efforts to record and protect Quebec’s historic buildings, leading to the founding in 1922 of the Commission des monuments historiques, which was mandated to protect the disappearing patrimony. This resulted in the Quebec law on the protection of historic monuments. Baudoin also wrote the occasional article for the nationalist magazine Action Française.

Hilary Bauerman was born on March 16, 1835, in London, England.

He was an English metallurgist, mineralogist, and geologist. In 1851, he entered the Government School of Mines, later the Royal School of Mines. In 1855, he became an assistant geologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In 1858, he went to Canada as a geologist to the North American Boundary Commission. He was subsequently employed on surveys and explorations in all parts of the world, searching for mineral deposits and surveying mining properties. For nearly 20 years he was Professor of Metallurgy at the Royal Artillery College, Woolwich, retiring in 1906. As an author, he made many valuable contributions to scientific and technical literature. In 1897, he was awarded the Howard Quinquennial Prize of The Institution of Civil Engineers in recognition of his work on the metallurgy of iron. He was a fellow and for some time a vice-president, of the Geological Society, an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an honorary member of the Iron and Steel Institute, and of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy.

He died, unmarried, on December 5, 1909, at Balham, London, England.