Montcalm Simard (October 4, 1921 – January 25, 2011) was a Canadian politician in the

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Background

Born in Rivière-Bleue,

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in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region near

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and

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, he was the brother of politician

Jean-Maurice Simard Jean-Maurice Simard (June 21, 1931 – June 16, 2001) was a Canadian Chartered Accountant and politician remembered as a strong promoter of French language rights and defender of Canadian bilingualism. He was born in Rivière-Bleue, Quebec in ...

, who was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick and

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from 1970 to 1985 and a member of the

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from 1985 to 2001.

Mayor

Simard served as Mayor of Rivière-Bleue from 1957 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1975.

Member of the Provincial Legislature

He ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1966 election in the district of Témiscouata and won. He was re-elected in the 1970 election, but he did not run for re-election in the 1973 election.

References

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