Sir Alexandre Lacoste, (January 13, 1842 – August 17, 1923) was a

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lawyer, professor, and politician. He was born in

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(now

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) in 1842, the son of

Louis Lacoste Louis Lacoste (April 3, 1798 – November 26, 1878) was a Quebec notary and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1878. He was born in Boucherville in 1798. He studied law and became a notary, p ...

. From 1880 to 1923, he was a professor of law at the

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. In 1882, he was appointed to the

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. In 1884, he was called to the

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representing the senatorial division of De Lorimier, Quebec. A

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, in April 1891, he was appointed Speaker of the Senate and served until he resigned from the Senate in September 1891 when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Quebec. He retired in 1907. In 1892 he was made a

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. He died in

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in 1923 and he was entombed at the

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in Montreal.

Family

Lady Marie Louise Lacoste by Arless Montreal

Federation nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste 1907

Alexandre Lacoste married

Marie-Louise Globensky Marie-Louise Globensky, Lady Lacoste (2 February 184911 December 1919), was a French-speaking Canadian philanthropist and diarist from the province of Quebec. She served as patroness for schools, orphans' homes, and several hospitals, including ...

, daughter of Leon Globensky, of Montreal on May 8, 1866. She was member of the First presidential board, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Montréal, 1907. She was a member of the Advisory Board of the Parks and Playgrounds Association of Montreal. The couple's eldest son, Louis Joseph Lacoste married Bertha Louisa, daughter of M. S. Foley, Esquire, editor-proprietor of the Journal of Commerce. Marie, their eldest daughter, wrote legal text-books and married an Advocate, Henri Gerin-Lajoie. Blanche, their second daughter, married Joseph P. Landry, son of Senator Landry. Another daughter, Justine married Louis de Gaspe, son of Hon. Louis Beaubien.

Justine Lacoste-Beaubien Justine Lacoste-Beaubien (October 1, 1877 – January 17, 1967) was one of the founders of the children's hospital Sainte-Justine Hospital. Born in Montreal, the daughter of Alexandre Lacoste and Marie-Louise Globensky, she married Louis de ...

was a founder of the

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Sainte-Justine Hospital.

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