# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-provancher
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:02:43.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-provancher"
name: "Léon Provancher"
slug: "leon-provancher"
description: "Léon Abel Provancher was a Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist. He is called the \"Father of Natural History in Canada\"."
tagline: "Canadian Catholic parish priest and naturalist (1820-1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/L%C3%A9on_Provancher_1820-1892.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1820-03-10"
deathDate: "1892-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.74
  momentum:             2.075471698113208
  historical:           6.337941333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Abel_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Abel Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Abel_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Abel Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Abel_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Abel Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Abel_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Abel Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Abel_Provancher"
    title: "Léon Abel Provancher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271281"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump