Cyrille Doyon (October 28, 1842 – January 7, 1918) was a

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merchant, farmer and political figure. He represented Laprairie in the

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from 1887 to 1891 as an independent Liberal and Laprairie in the

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from 1892 to 1897 as a

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member. He was born in St-Isidore,

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, the son of Antoine Doyon and Marie-Archange Pépin dit Lachance, and was educated at the

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. Doyan was a

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and an inspector for the Farmers' Assurance Company and for the Sovereign Assurance Company. In 1869, he married Vitaline Riopel. Doyon served as mayor of Saint-Isidore from 1874 to 1876. He established the first butter factory in Saint-Isidore in 1885. Doyon was defeated when he ran for reelection to the House of Commons in 1891 and when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1897. He moved to

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in 1898. Doyon died there at the age of 75 and was buried in the

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (french: Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was founded in 1854. The entrance and the grounds run a ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doyon, Cyrille 1842 births 1918 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs Mayors of places in Quebec People from Montérégie Canadian justices of the peace Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery