Henri-Marc Ami | |
Birth Date: | 23 November 1858 |
Birth Place: | Belle-Rivière, Canada East |
Death Place: | Menton, France |
Fields: | Paleontology |
Workplaces: | Geological Survey of Canada |
Alma Mater: | McGill University |
Henri-Marc Ami (November 23, 1858 - January 4, 1931) was a French Canadian archaeologist responsible for the initial excavation of Combe-Capelle from the years of 1926 until his death in 1931.
In 1899–1901 he was president of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club.[1] In 1900 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
He received the 1903 Bigsby Medal from the Geological Society of London.[2]
Dr. Ami is buried at Beechwood Cemetery.
Born in 1858 in Belle-Rivière, the son of a Swiss pastor, he studied at McGill University under Professor John William Dawson.[3]