René "Pepsi" Landry (21 May 1937 – 2 August 2016) was a political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

Moncton North Moncton North (french: Moncton-Nord) was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Oce ...

in the

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as a Progressive Conservative member. He was born in

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, the son of Léonie LeBlanc and Wilfred Landry. Landry was educated at the

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, the

Université de Moncton The Université de Moncton is a Canadian francophone university in New Brunswick. It includes campuses in Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan. The university was founded in 1963 following the recommendations of the royal commission on higher ed ...

and

Sir George Williams University Sir George Williams University was a university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It merged with Loyola College to create Concordia University on August 24, 1974. History In 1851, the first YMCA in North America was established on Sainte-Hélène S ...

. He worked for the Moncton Boys and Girls Club and then worked as a facilities coordinator for the city of Moncton. He married Jacqueline Gagnon. His bid for reelection to the provincial assembly in 2003 was unsuccessful. In 2004, Landry was elected to the

Moncton City Council The Moncton City Council (french: Conseil municipal de Moncton) is the governing body of the City of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. It consists of a mayor and ten councillors elected to four-year terms. The council is non-partisan with the mayor s ...

. He was named to the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission in 2006.Royal Gazette (05/05/25), Government of New Brunswick
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References

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