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- Maurice Buist, S.J.
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Born in Saint-Tite (Québec) on May 23, 1902, Maurice Buist, S.J. entered the Society of Jesus on December 24, 1920 at the Sault-au-Récollet novitiate. He was ordained on August 13, 1933 and pronounced his final vows on February 2, 1936 after the completion of his tertianship in Chicoutimi. He teached mathematics and physics at Collège Sainte-Marie from 1927 to 1930, and at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf from 1936 to 1955. He worked as a spiritual director in addition to his teaching duties. In 1955 he founded the Observatoire de géophysique de Brébeuf, where he served as director until 1984. In 1965, he resumed teaching physics and took over around the same time publishing duties for the Bulletin de géophysique, the Observatory’s scientific journal, until 1983. A member of several scientific associations including the Geodesy and Geophysics Committee, Father Buist also participated in television and radio interviews on Radio-Canada as a seismology specialist. After a short illness, Buist died on December 18, 1986 at the age of 84. His funeral was held on December 22, 1986 at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Church.