Joseph-Alexis Dufresne was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the seventh Mayor of

Shawinigan 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) an ...

from 1920 to 1928.J.-Alexis Dufresne (1869-1928), Société d'histoire et de généalogie de Shawinigan
/ref> He was born in 1869 near Portneuf, Quebec and was a physician. He moved to Shawinigan in 1901. Dufresne served as school board member and also as council member from 1902 to 1906 and 1911 to 1913. He ran for Mayor in Shawinigan in 1920 and won. He was re-elected in 1922, 1924 and 1926. Under his administration, the following institutions or facilities were put into place: * Chamber of Commerce and Industrie of Shawinigan; * Fire station #1 (Place du Marché, Downtown); * Fire station #2 (2023, avenue Champlain); * Parc Saint-Marc; * Union musicale de Shawinigan (the local philharmonic choir). Dufresne was the Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Saint-Maurice in the

1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...

1912 Events January * January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established. * January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens. * January 6 ...

1919 Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the c ...

and

1923 Events January–February * January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory). * January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...

elections. Each time he lost. He left active politics in 1928 for health reasons. He died in the same year. ''Rue Dufresne'' in the Saint-Marc neighbourhood was named to honour him.

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