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Montréal-Verdun
Montréal-Verdun was a former provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. It was created for the 1923 election from part of Jacques-Cartier electoral district. Its final election was in 1962. It disappeared in the 1966 election and its successor electoral district was Verdun. Members of the Legislative Assembly * Pierre-Auguste Lafleur, Conservative Party - Union Nationale (1923–1939) * Joseph-Jean-Léopold Comeau, Liberal (1939–1944) * Lionel-Alfred Ross, Liberal (1944–1960) * George O'Reilly, Liberal (1960–1964) * Claude Wagner Claude Wagner (April 4, 1925 – July 11, 1979) was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. Throughout his career, he was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge. Life and career Wagner was bor ..., Liberal (1964–1966) Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montréal-Verdun
Montréal-Verdun was a former provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. It was created for the 1923 election from part of Jacques-Cartier electoral district. Its final election was in 1962. It disappeared in the 1966 election and its successor electoral district was Verdun. Members of the Legislative Assembly * Pierre-Auguste Lafleur, Conservative Party - Union Nationale (1923–1939) * Joseph-Jean-Léopold Comeau, Liberal (1939–1944) * Lionel-Alfred Ross, Liberal (1944–1960) * George O'Reilly, Liberal (1960–1964) * Claude Wagner Claude Wagner (April 4, 1925 – July 11, 1979) was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. Throughout his career, he was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge. Life and career Wagner was bor ..., Liberal (1964–1966) Election results ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Wagner
Claude Wagner (April 4, 1925 РJuly 11, 1979) was a Canadian judge and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. Throughout his career, he was a Crown prosecutor, professor of criminal law and judge. Life and career Wagner was born in Shawinigan, Quebec, as the son of Corona ( Saint-Arnaud) and Benjamin Wagner. His father, a violinist, was a immigrant from the city of Sucheva Bukovina Romania. http://www.macleans.ca/2012/10/04/the-other-political-son/ , title=Archived copy , access-date=2012-10-10 His mother was French-Canadian. In 1963, Wagner was appointed as a Sessions Court judge. Subsequently, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in a by-election in Montr̩al-Verdun on October 5, 1964, and was re-elected in the 1966 general election in Verdun. He earned a " law-and-order" reputation when he served successively as Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Minister of Justice from its creation in 1965 to 1966 in the government of Quebec Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George O'Reilly
George O'Reilly (27 February 1911 Р17 June 1992) was a Canadian politician. Born in Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montreal, Quebec, O'Reilly was a Verdun city councillor from 1951 to 1960 and mayor from 1960 to 1966. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montr̩al-Verdun in 1960. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1962. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec The Legislative Council of Quebec (French; ''Conseil l̩gislatif du Qu̩bec'') was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canadian province of Quebec from 1867 to 1968. The Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Legislative Assem ... for De la Durantaye in 1964 and served until its abolishment in 1968. References 1911 births 1992 deaths Quebec Liberal Party MLCs Quebec Liberal Party MNAs Mayors of places in Quebec People from Le Sud-Ouest People from Verdun, Quebec Canadian people of Irish descent Quebec people of Irish descent {{Liberal-Quebec-MNA-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verdun (provincial Electoral District)
Verdun is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. Its territory corresponds exactly to the borough of Verdun of the city of Montreal. It was created for the 1966 election from Montr̩al-Verdun electoral district. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly This riding has elected the following Members of the National Assembly: Election results * Result compared to Action d̩mocratique * Result compared to UFP , - , - , - , - , - , - , Independent , Robert Lindblad , align="right", 54 , align="right", 0.19 , align="right", Р, - * Result compared to PDS , - , - , Natural law , Gilles Bigras , align="right", 204 , align="right", 0.61 , align="right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur (March 3, 1872 РDecember 14, 1954) was a Canadian politician and a five-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Background He was born in Sainte-Ad̬le, Laurentides on March 3, 1872 and made career in the furniture industry. He married Jennie Veitch in Verdun, Quebec in 1918. City Councillor He served as a city councillor from 1921 to 1933 in Verdun. Member of the legislature Lafleur ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Montr̩al-Verdun in the 1923 election and won. He was re-elected in the 1927, 1931 and 1935 elections. He joined Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale and was re-elected in the 1936 election. He was defeated in the 1939, 1944 and 1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The Constitution of New Jersey (later subject to amendment) goes into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British ... elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 Quebec General Election
The 1923 Quebec general election was held on February 5, 1923, to elect members of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating the Conservative Party of Quebec (historical), Quebec Conservative Party, led by Arthur Sauvé. It was the first of four election victories in a row for Taschereau. However, he had held office since 1920, following the resignation of the previous premier, Lomer Gouin. Redistribution of ridings An Act passed prior to the election increased the number of MLAs from 81 to 85 through the following changes: Results This was the last Quebec election in which a candidate won in multiple ridings. Joseph-Édouard Perrault took both Abitibi (provincial electoral district), Abitibi and Arthabaska (electoral district), Arthabaska, and he would later resign from Abitibi to allow Hector Authier to be elected in a byelection later that year. , - ! colspan=2 rowspa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Liberal Party
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; french: Parti libéral du Québec, PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955. The QLP has always been associated with the colour red; each of their main opponents in different eras have been generally associated with the colour blue. The QLP has traditionally supported a form of Quebec federalist ideology with nuanced Canadian nationalist tones that supports Quebec remaining within the Canadian federation, while also supporting reforms that would allow substantial autonomism in Quebec. In the context of federal Canadian politics,Haddow and Klassen 2006 ''Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy''. University of Toronto Press. it is a more centrist party when compared to Conservative and Liberal parties in other provinces, such as the British Columbia Liberal Party. History Pre-Confederation The Liberal Party is descended from the Parti canadien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thérèse Casgrain
Marie Thérèse Casgrain, ., née Forget (10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) was a French Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. In her later life she opposed nuclear weapons and was a consumer activist. A strong federalist, one of her last political actions, at age 83, was to intervene on the "No" side in the 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum. Family and early life Born in Saint-Irénée-les-Bains, near Quebec City, Thérèse was raised in a wealthy family, the daughter of Blanche, Lady Forget (née MacDonald), and Sir Rodolphe Forget, a wealthy entrepreneur and Conservative Member of Parliament. In 1905, at eight years old, she became a boarder at the Dames du Sacré-Coeur, at Sault-au-Récollet, near Montreal. Upon graduation, she hoped to further her studies at university, but her father opposed the idea, not s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralliement Créditiste
Historically in Quebec, Canada, there were a number of political parties that were part of the Canadian social credit movement. There were various parties at different times with different names at the provincial level, all broadly following the social credit philosophy; at various times they had varying degrees of affiliation with the Social Credit Party of Canada at the federal level. The greatest success achieved by a provincial social credit party in Quebec was the Ralliement créditiste du Québec, which won 12 seats in the 1970 Quebec provincial election. Union des électeurs The Union des électeurs (UE) (in English: "Union of Electors") was founded in 1939 by Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier. It was the first ''créditiste'' political movement to be active in Quebec. It ran two candidates, Even and Armand Turpin in the 1940 federal election as part of the Canada-wide New Democracy movement. Even won 17% of the vote and placed third in the riding of Lake St-Johnâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Libérale Nationale
The Action libérale nationale (ALN)('National Liberal Action') was a short-lived provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It was founded during the Great Depression and led by Paul Gouin. The ALN played an important role in the foundation of the Union Nationale. Origin and beliefs The party was created in 1934 by dissidents from the Liberal Party of Quebec. It soon received the support of French Canadian nationalists as federal Liberal Member of Parliament Édouard Lacroix, Liberal Members of the Legislature Oscar Drouin and Philippe Hamel, and Québec City mayor Joseph-Ernest Grégoire. The ALN promoted social justice, nationalism and was not affiliated to any federal party. Its platform included the following proposals: * Farm credit; * Voluntary migration from cities to rural areas; * Rural electrification; * Nationalization of electricity; * Corporativism; * Electoral reform; Its ideology was influenced by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church promote ... [...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] |
