Jérémie-Louis Décarie
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Jérémie-Louis Décarie, (; August 30, 1870 – November 5, 1927) was a
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lawyer, politician, and judge in the province of Quebec. Born in
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, the son of Daniel-Jérémie Décarie and Philomène Leduc, Décarie was educated at Sainte-Marie College and at the Université Laval in Montreal. He was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1896 and was created a
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in 1904. He
read law Reading law was the primary method used in common law countries, particularly the United States, for people to prepare for and enter the legal profession before the advent of law schools. It consisted of an extended internship or apprenticeship un ...
, first in the office of E. Barnard and later with Mercier, Gouin & Lemieux. He later became a partner in the firm of Gouin, Lemieux & Decarie. In 1903 he formed a partnership with A. Decary under the firm name of Decarie & Decary. He was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate to the
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for the riding of Jacques-Cartier in the 1900 federal election. He was elected to the
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for the electoral district of Hochelaga in the 1904 election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in
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. In 1909, he was the Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Lomer Gouin. From 1909 to 1919, he was the Provincial Secretary. He did not run in
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. He was appointed a judge in 1919. He died in Montreal in 1927 and was buried in the
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. The geographic township of Décarie in Sainte-Anne-du-Lac was named after him, and
Décarie Boulevard Autoroute 15 is a highway in western Quebec, Canada. It is also called the Décarie Expressway (English) or (French) between the Turcot and Décarie Interchanges in Montreal and the Laurentian Autoroute (English) or (French) north of Auto ...
in Montreal is named after his family.


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