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Maisonneuve (provincial Electoral District)
Maisonneuve was a former provincial electoral district in the Montreal (region), Montreal region of Quebec, Canada. It was created for the 1912 Quebec general election, 1912 election from part of Hochelaga (provincial electoral district), Hochelaga electoral district. Its final election was in 1985 Quebec general election, 1985. It disappeared in the 1989 Quebec general election, 1989 election and its successor electoral district was Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (electoral district), Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. It was named after the founder of Ville-Marie (now Montreal), Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly * Jérémie-Louis Décarie, Quebec Liberal Party, Liberal (1912–1919) * Adélard Laurendeau, Parti ouvrier (1919–1923) * Jean-Marie Pellerin, Conservative Party of Quebec (historical), Conservative Party (1923–1927) * William Tremblay (politician), William Tremblay, Parti Ouvrier (1927–1931) * Charles-Joseph Arcand, Liberal (1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal (region)
Montreal is one of the administrative regions of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census division (CD), for both of which its geographical code is 66. Prior to the merger of the municipalities in ''Region 06'' in 2002, the administrative region was co-extensive with the Montreal Urban Community. Located in the southern part of the province, the territory includes several of the islands of the Hochelaga Archipelago in the Saint Lawrence River, including the Island of Montreal, Nuns' Island (Île des Sœurs), Île Bizard, Saint Helen's Island (Île Sainte-Hélène), Île Notre-Dame, Dorval Island (Île Dorval), and several others. The region is the second-smallest in area (499.26 km², or 192.77 sq mi) and most populous (1,942,044 as of the 2016 Canadian Census) of Quebec's seventeen administrative regions. Government The region consists of the 2002–2005 territory of the city of Montreal, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tremblay (politician)
William Tremblay (August 10, 1877 – November 15, 1973) was a politician in Quebec, Canada and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (MLA). Early life He was born on August 10, 1877 in Chicoutimi. First Attempt in Federal Politics Tremblay ran as a Labour candidate in the district of Maisonneuve in the 1925 federal election and finished a distant third against Liberal incumbent Clément Robitaille. Member of the legislature He ran as a Labor candidate in the district of Maisonneuve in the 1927 provincial election and won. He finished a distant third in the 1931 election and was defeated by Liberal candidate Charles-Joseph Arcand. Tremblay was re-elected as a Conservative candidate in the 1935 election. He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. Cabinet Member He served as Minister of Labour from 1936 until the 1939 election, when he was defeated by Liberal incumbent Joseph-Georges Caron. Last Attempt in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Lalande
Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia * Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 song originally recorded by Pat Simon and covered by Sylvie Vartan *Georges (store), a department store in Melbourne, Australia from 1880 to 1995 * Georges (''Green Card'' character) People with the surname * Eugenia Georges, American anthropologist *Karl Ernst Georges (1806–1895), German classical philologist and lexicographer, known for his edition of Latin-German dictionaries. See also *École secondaire Georges-P.-Vanier, a high school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada *École secondaire Georges-Vanier in Laval, Quebec, Canada * French cruiser ''Georges Leygues'', commissioned in 1937 * French frigate ''Georges Leygues'' (D640), commissioned in 1979 *George (other) *Georges Creek (other) *Georges Creek Coal and Iron C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state. The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada. The party traditionally has support from the labour movement, but unlike most other social democratic parties, its ties with organized labour are informal. Members and supporters of the PQ are nicknamed ''péquistes'' (), a French word derived from the pronunciation of the party's initials in Quebec French. The party is an associate member of COPPPAL. The party has strong informal ties to the Bloc Québécois (BQ, whose members are known as "Bloquistes"), the federal party that has also advocated for the secession of Quebec from Canada, but the two are not linked organizationally. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Burns (Quebec Politician)
Robert Burns (September 5, 1936 – May 15, 2014) was a politician, attorney and union activist from Quebec, Canada. Background He was born on September 5, 1936 in Montreal to working-class family with English speaking father of Irish Quebecer descent and a francophone mother. His father delivered bread for a living and died when Robert was two. Burns trained as a labour lawyer at the University of Montreal on a scholarship and became a legal advisor to the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) trade union. Politically, he was active in the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, the predecessor of the New Democratic Party. Initially a federalist, Burns became a nationalist as a result of his experiences representing francophone workers against English bosses and was persuaded to stand as a Parti Québécois candidate in 1970. Member of the legislature Burns won a seat to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1970 in the district of Maisonneuve having defeated former Ras ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Léveillé
André Léveillé (August 11, 1933 – January 18, 2017) was a Canadian politician in Quebec. Background He was born on August 11, 1933, in Montreal and was an accountant by profession. Member of the legislature Léveillé won a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in 1966 in the district of Maisonneuve and was a member of the Union Nationale. He served as the government's Deputy Whip from 1966 to 1968. Léveillé lost his re-election in 1970 and was succeeded by Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate Robert Burns. Party Leader He was defeated at the Union Nationale leadership conventions of 1969, when he placed last with 22 votes, and in 1971, when he received no votes on the first ballot. Out of politics, Léveillé worked as a realtor and served as a commissioner of oaths, accepted several other public appointments, and operated a small publishing company in the 1970s and 1980s. On October 11, 1985, he re-entered political life by founding the Parti du progr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Dupré (politician)
Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré (; 3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist, composer, and pedagogue. Early life and education Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré was titular organist of Saint-Ouen Abbey from 1911 til his death and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, who built an organ in the family house when Marcel was 10 years old. His mother Marie-Alice Dupré-Chauvière was a cellist who also gave music lessons, and his paternal uncle Henri Auguste Dupré was a violinist and violist. Both of his grandfathers, Étienne-Pierre Chauvière ( maître de chapelle at Saint-Patrice in Rouen and an operatic bass) and Aimable Auguste-Pompée Dupré (who was also a friend of Cavaillé-Coll) were also organists. Having already taken lessons from Alexandre Guilmant (due to him appealing to his father), he entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, where he studied with Louis Diémer and Lazare Lévy (pia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Tremblay
Lucien Tremblay (March 25, 1912 – June 4, 1985) was the Chief Justice of Quebec from 1961 to 1977. Born in Verdun, Quebec, Tremblay was educated at the Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- .... He was professor of civil procedure at the Université de Montréal from 1950 to 1959. From 1961 to 1977 he was Chief Justice of Quebec. He was Chancellor of the Université de Montréal from 1967 to 1970. He served as acting lieutenant governor of Quebec from September 30 to October 12, 1961 and from February 21 to February 22, 1966. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Tremblay, Lucien 1912 births 1985 deaths Judges in Quebec Université de Montréal Faculty of Law alumni Academic staff of the Université de Montréal People from Verdun, Quebec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcide Montpetit
Alcide is the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for Heracles. Alcide may also refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Alcide'' (Bortniansky), a 1778 opera by Dmitry Bortniansky * ''Alcide'' (Marais), a 1693 opera by Marin Marais and Louis Lully * Alcide Herveaux, a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris * Alcide, a fictional policeman in the French TV series '' The Returned'' * Alcide Nikopol, the main character of the Nikopol Trilogy novels by French cartoonist Enki Bilal * Alcide Jolivet, a fictional journalist in the novel '' Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar'' by Jules Verne Ships * French ship ''Alcide'' (1743) * French ship ''Alcide'' (1782) * HMS ''Alcide'', a list of ships with this name Other uses * Alcide (horse) (1955–1973), a British Thoroughbred racehorse * 8549 Alcide 8549 Alcide, provisional designation , is a stony Nysa asteroid from the inner regions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Georges Caron
Joseph-Georges Caron (December 4, 1896 – January 15, 1956) was a Canadian provincial politician. Born in Maisonneuve (Montreal), 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 thirtee ..., Caron was the member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Maisonneuve from 1939 to 1944. References 1896 births 1956 deaths Politicians from Montreal Quebec Liberal Party MNAs {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Nationale (Quebec)
The Union nationale () was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, that identified with Québécois autonomism. It was created during the Great Depression and held power in Quebec from 1936 to 1939, and from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Duplessis, who led it until his death in 1959. The party was often referred to in English as the National Union, especially when it was still an electoral force, by both the media and, at times, the party. History Origin The party started when the Action libérale nationale, a group of dissidents from the Quebec Liberal Party, formed a loose coalition with the Conservative Party of Quebec. In the 1935 Quebec election the two parties agreed to run only one candidate of either party in each riding. The Action libérale nationale (ALN) elected 26 out of 57 candidates and the Conservatives won 16 seats out of 33 districts. Conservative leader Maurice Duplessis became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
