François Roy (1896–1970) was a local politician in

Shawinigan, Quebec 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 ...

. He was the 12th Mayor of

from 1946 to 1954. Roy was born in 1896 in Rivière-des-Prairies, near

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. He successfully ran for mayor in 1946 and was re-elected in 1948 and 1951. The current Shawinigan City Hall (located in downtown Shawinigan at 550 Avenue de l’Hôtel-de-Ville) was constructed in 1948 under his tenure. The structure has an

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architectural style and is similar to the

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. Roy also unveiled the Monument des Braves. He ran for mayor again in 1963 but lost to Gérard Dufresne. Roy died in Shawinigan in 1970.

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president and

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Raymond Legault performed the role of François Roy for one of La Cité de l'Énergie

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shows.

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