Education
Puyjalon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toulouse and emigrated to Quebec in 1874.
Puyjalon graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toulouse and emigrated to Quebec in 1874.
He explored the Côte-Nord of the Saint Lawrence River, and was one of the first Canadian ecologists to suggest wildlife and marine conservation areas. He became a hunter, trapper, ornithologist, geologist and naturalist, and in 1880, a Quebec government employee with the task to explore for mineral wealth within Labrador. He became a Canadian citizen in 1888, and for the next three years the lighthouse keeper of Parrot Island on the Mingan Archipelago.
In 1897 Puyjalon was appointed Quebec"s Inspector General of Fisheries and Wildlife, and used this position to encourage the government to establish protected marine areas and to publicise the dangers of over-exploitation, particularly through his books and technical literature.
An episode of the television series, A Scattering of Seeds, featured Puyjalon. In 1882, Henry was wed to Angelina Ouimet in Québec city.
Together they had 2 sons.
The political opinions of Henry de Puyjalon are unknown, but he was friend with members of the Institut canadien de Montréal thus, Henry would have been very close to the Parti Rouge.