Howdy!
Last month Place des Arts finally finished construction on Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme. As I was wandering around it (more on what I think about it later) I kinda wondered to myself, who the heck was Georges-Émile Lapalme? Neither the French or English Wikipedia pages give much detail. But last week Isabelle Paré wrote a wonderful article in Le Devoir explaining in detail who he was and why they named it after him.