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Lise Landry
Lise Landry is a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. She was the 19th Mayor of the city from 1994 to 2009. Family and life prior to elective office She is married. Her husband's name is Henri. Her son Yves has been the Member for the District des Terrasses on the Trois-Rivières City Council. Prior to her election, she was political assistant to Liberal MNA Yvon Lemire. Mayor of Shawinigan Landry successfully ran as Mayor of Shawinigan in 1994 and became the first woman to serve in that function. She was re-elected in 1998 (without opposition), in 2001 (against Grand-Mère Mayor Linda Lafrenière) and in 2005. Legacy During her administration, La Cité de l'Énergie, a theme park based on local industrial history with a observation tower, was established. A number of sections of town were revitalized, including Willow Avenue and Lévis Avenue, where traffic was re-arranged into a circle and an ornamental fountain was erected. The area near the intersection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawinigan
Shawinigan () is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 49,349 as of the 2016 Canadian census. Shawinigan is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Shawinigan. Its geographical code is 36. Shawinigan is the seat of the judicial district of Saint-Maurice. The name Shawinigan has had numerous spellings over time: Chaouinigane, Oshaouinigane, Assaouinigane, Achawénégan, Chawinigame, Shawenigane, Chaouénigane. It may mean "south portage", "portage of beeches", "angular portage", or "summit" or "crest". Before 1958, the city was known as Shawinigan Falls. Shawinigan is the birthplace of former Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien. History In 1651, the Jesuit priest Buteaux was the first European known to have travelled up the Saint-Maurice River to this river's first set of great falls. Afterwards, missionaries going t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Le Centre-de-la-Mauricie was a former regional county municipality and census geographic units of Canada, census division in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it consisted of: ;''Villes'' * Grand-Mère, Quebec, Grand-Mère * Shawinigan * Shawinigan-Sud, Quebec, Shawinigan-Sud ;Municipalities * Charette, Quebec, Charette * Lac-à-la-Tortue, Quebec, Lac-à-la-Tortue ;Parish Municipalities * Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec, Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel * Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, Saint-Élie * Saint-Gérard-des-Laurentides, Quebec, Saint-Gérard-des-Laurentides * Saint-Jean-des-Piles, Quebec, Saint-Jean-des-Piles * Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc, Quebec, Saint-Mathieu-du-Parc ;Villages * Saint-Boniface, Quebec, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan * Saint-Georges-de-Champlain, Quebec, Saint-Georges-de-Champlain The RCM was dissolved on December 31, 2001, when the municipalities of Charette, Quebec, Charette, Saint-Boniface, Quebec, Saint-Boniface-de-Shawinigan, Saint-Él ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Mayors Of Places In Quebec
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Thro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Désaulniers
Roland Désaulniers has been a local businessman and politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the 18th Mayor of Shawinigan, Quebec from 1986 to 1994. He successfully ran as Mayor of Shawinigan in 1986 and was re-elected in 1990. He did not run for re-election in 1994. Désaulniers, who is a Canadian federalism, federalist, took the stump in local rallies in 1995 Quebec referendum, 1995 to oppose the Quebec sovereignty movement. He has often been mentioned by the media as a potential Liberal Party of Quebec, Liberal candidate to the National Assembly of Quebec, provincial legislature but has never thrown his hat in the ring so far. He has also been chairman of the board of administrators for La Cité de l'Énergie, a theme park based on local industrial history with a observation tower of la Cité de l'Énergie, observation tower. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors Of Shawinigan
The Mayor is the highest elected official in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada. Since its incorporation in 1901, the city has had twenty mayors. Officially, elections to the Shawinigan Council are on a non-partisan basis. In recent history however, mayors of Shawinigan have been generally Liberal leaning. Gérard Dufresne, Dominique Grenier, Roland Désaulniers and Lise Landry were or have been card-carrying supporters of the Quebec Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada (french: Parti libéral du Canada, region=CA) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' .... Footnotes {{reflist Mayors of Shawinigan, Lists of mayors of places in Quebec, Shawinigan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Angers
Michel Angers is a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He is the current Mayor of the city, having won the 2009 municipal election. Background He was born on November 2, 1959 and is from the Grand-Mère section of town. Angers has worked for Alcan. He has a background in organized labour, serving in a leadership position with the local branch of the CSN. Mayor of Shawinigan Angers became a candidate for Mayor of Shawinigan in May 2009. He did not run as part of a ticket and expressed the desire to work with whoever the voters would send to city hall. His campaign used the Internet, as the other candidates did. Angers pledged to help creating jobs and proposed the replacement of slums with newer housing or businesses. His opponents accused him of being politically too close to incumbent Lise Landry who supported him. Picking up key endorsements from local politicians such as Mayor André Garant of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton and former city councillor Maurice Héroux, Ang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Maurice—Champlain
Saint-Maurice–Champlain is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. It consists of: * the City of Shawinigan; * the Regional County Municipality of Le Haut-Saint-Maurice, including Communauté de Wemotaci Indian Reserve, Coucoucache Indian Reserve No. 24A and Obedjiwan Indian Reserve No. 28; and * the regional county municipalities of Les Chenaux and Mékinac. The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean, Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier, Trois-Rivières, Berthier—Maskinongé, Joliette, Laurentides—Labelle, and Pontiac. History Saint-Maurice—Champlain riding was created in 2003 from parts of Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik, Champlain, Roberval and Saint-Maurice ridings. This riding gained territory from Trois-Rivières during the 2012 electoral redistribution. Member of Parliament Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada (french: Parti libéral du Canada, region=CA) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. and generally sits at the centre to centre-left of the Canadian political spectrum, with their rival, the Conservative Party, positioned to their right and the New Democratic Party, who at times aligned itself with the Liberals during minority governments, positioned to their left. The party is described as "big tent",PDF copy at UBC Press. practising "brokerage politics", attracting support from a broad spectrum of voters. The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated federal |
Centre Bionest De Shawinigan
The Centre Gervais Auto is a 4,125-seat multi-purpose arena in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada that opened on December 27, 2008 and has been the home of the Shawinigan Cataractes since 2008. When the Shawinigan Cataractes played their first-ever game in their new state-of-the-art facility, the game sold out with 4, 112 spectators in attendance. The Cataractes won 5–1 against the Junior de Montreal. The team departed from the historic Aréna Jacques Plante after their last game there on December 18 of the same year. Events On May 5, 2009, the Shawinigan Cataractes hosted their first QMJHL President Cup Finals game in 38 years and their first in the new arena. The area hosted the 2012 Memorial Cup from May 18 to May 27, 2012. On May 27, 2012, the Shawinigan Cataractes defeated the London Knights 2–1 in overtime to capture the MasterCard Memorial Cup, and also become just the second team in QMJHL history as the host team to win. Tenants * Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL The Quebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal Reorganization In Quebec
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New York. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wal-Mart
Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores from the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas. The company was founded by Sam Walton in nearby Rogers, Arkansas in 1962 and incorporated under Delaware General Corporation Law on October 31, 1969. It also owns and operates Sam's Club retail warehouses. Walmart has 10,586 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 46 different names. The company operates under the name Walmart in the United States and Canada, as Walmart de México y Centroamérica in Mexico and Central America, and as Flipkart Wholesale in India. It has wholly owned operations in Chile, Canada, and South Africa. Since August 2018, Walmart held only a minority stake in Walmart Brasil, which was renamed Grupo Big in August 2019, with 20 percent of the company's shares, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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