Marcel Hamelin

Marcel Hamelin (born September 18, 1937) is a Canadian historian and academic. He served as President of the University of Ottawa from 1990 to 2001. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He is an alumnus of Laval University (Doctor of Letters in History, 1961) and the Séminaire Sainte-Marie in Shawinigan, Quebec. He joined the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa in 1966, teaching and serving as chairman in the Department of History. He later held the positions of Vice-Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research and Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1974 to 1990. He married Judith Purcell on August 18, 1962 and has three children. The Arts building at the University of Ottawa is now named after him.