Onésime Carignan (October 16, 1839 – September 20, 1897) was a wholesale and retail grocer and political figure in

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. He represented Champlain in the

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from 1891 to 1896 as a

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member. He was born in

Champlain, Quebec Champlain () is a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located in Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality and the administrative region the Mauricie, on the north shore of St. Lawrence River. Champlain is also part of the me ...

, the son of Joseph Carignan and Josephte Turcotte. In 1864, he married Aglaée Le Bel. Carignan served as a member of the town council for

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

from 1876 to 1888.

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* * * 1839 births 1897 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Conservative18671942-Quebec-MP-stub