What is Georges Brossard?
[[File:Georges Brossard (Insectia) 004 (cropped).JPG|thumb|200px|Brossard in 1998]] '''Georges Brossard''' {{postnominals|country=CAN|CM|CQ}} (February 11, 1940 – June 26, 2019) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[entomologist]]. He was born in [[Montreal, Quebec]]. He founded the [[Montreal Insectarium]], a natural history museum featuring insects that first opened on February 7, 1990. He also hosted the [[Discovery Channel]] documentary program ''[[Insectia]]''. He became a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1999, and a Knight of the [[National Order of Quebec]] in 2006. Brossard died of [[lung cancer]] on June 26, 2019 in [[Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec|Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil]], [[Quebec]]. He was 79.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/montreal-insectarium-founder-georges-brossard-dies-at-79|title=Montreal Insectarium founder Georges Brossard dies at 79|date=June 26, 2019|access-date=June 28, 2019|author=Sucar, Daniel|newspaper=Montreal Gazette}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *[http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/insectarium Montreal Insectarium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623111827/http://espacepourlavie.ca/en/insectarium |date=2019-06-23 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Brossard, Georges}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Canadian biologists]] [[Category:Order of Canada]] [[Category:People from Montreal]] [[Category:Entomologists]] {{Bio-stub}}