Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne (August 22, 1844 – September 30, 1910) was a lawyer, journalist and political figure in

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. He represented Wolfe in the

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from 1892 to 1904 as a

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. He was born in Saint-Pie,

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, the son of Jérôme Chicoine and Dorothée Deslandes, dit Champigny, and was adopted by his godfather Joseph Charbonneau at the age of three. Chicoyne was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. He was admitted to the

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in 1868 and set up practice in

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. Earlier the same year, he had married Marie-Rose-Caroline Perrault. In 1872, he left the practice of law to become an immigration agent for Quebec. Chicoyne contributed to the ''Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe'' and ''L'Opinion publique''. He established the newspaper ''La Colonisation'' in Sherbrooke in 1886 and then was the owner and editor of the ''Pionnier de Sherbrooke'' from 1888 to 1901. He served on the municipal council for Sherbrooke and was mayor from 1890 to 1892. Chicoyne was also mayor of La Patrie and Mégantic. In the Quebec assembly, he developed the Quebec Agricultural Syndicates’ Act which allowed farmers to set up cooperative associations, leading to the development of

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. Chicoyne died in Saint-Hyacinthe at the age of 66. He published ''Causeries agricoles: une visite chez le capitaine B'' in 1874 under the pen name Jean Bellevue.

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* Auclair, Elie-Joseph (1933)
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