Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard, CMG (June 18, 1850 – November 27, 1928) was a lawyer, railroad company executive and political figure in

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. He represented Dorchester in the

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from 1888 to 1891 as a

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member. He was born in

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, the son of Honoré-Julien Chouinard and Marie Elisabeth Célina Pelletier. Chouinard was educated at the Collège Sainte-Anne, the Séminaire de Québec and the

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. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1873. In 1884, he married Marie Louise Isabelle Juchereau Duchesnay, the daughter of

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. He served as a member of the council for Quebec City. Chouinard was one of the founders of the newspaper ''La Justice''. He was vice-president of the Quebec and Lac Saint-Jean Railway. Chouinard was also president of Le Club Cartier de Québec, the Quebec Geographical Society, L'Institut Canadien de Québec and La Societé Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec. He ran unsuccessfully in the federal riding of L'Islet in 1882. Chouinard was elected to the House of Commons in an 1888 by-election held after the death of his brother-in-law Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay. He served as clerk for the city of Quebec from 1890 to 1927. Chouinard published a number of works including ''Histoire de la Societé Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Québec''. He was one of the first to advocate a major celebration for the tricentennial of Quebec City in 1908 and the establishment of a park on the

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.National Battlefields Commission, Government of Canada
/ref> He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1908 as the Secretary to the National Battlefields Commission, Quebec. He died at Quebec City at the age of 78.''Les avocats de la région de Québec'' (1936)
PG Roy

References

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''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1889''
AJ Gemmill

External links

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''Annales de la Société St-Jean-Baptiste de Québec ... Volume 1'' (1903)
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''Annales de la Société St-Jean-Baptiste de Québec ... Volume 4'' (1903)
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''Invasion du Canada et siège de Québec en 1775-76'' (1876)
L-P Turcotte & HJJB Chouinard
''Troisième centenaire de la fondation de Québec, berceau du Canada ...'' (1908)
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''Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve, fondateur de Montréal ...'' (1882)
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''Monographie d'une famille canadienne-française : les Juchereau-Duchesnay'' (1903)
HJJB Chouinard {{DEFAULTSORT:Chouinard, Honore Julien Jean-Baptiste 1850 births 1928 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Nationalist Conservative MPs Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Université Laval alumni