Clovis Gagnon (January 6,1926 – June 22,2022) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.
Gagnon was born in Le Bic,Quebec in 1926,one of seven children born to Émile Gagnon and Blanche Roy. [1] His father was a notary. He attended Séminaire de Rimouski from 1939 to 1947,then UniversitéLaval from 1946 to 1950 where he earned a law degree. [2] Gagnon was a Union Nationale member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Matapédia from 1953 to 1960,having first been elected in a by-election following the death of Philippe Cossette in a motor vehicle accident. Gagnon was the parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Lands and Forests in 1960,and deputy whip in 1955. He served until his defeat by Bona Arsenault in the 1960 election,and also ran unsuccessfully in 1962. [2]
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis,byname "Le Chef",was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative,nationalist,populist,anti-communist,anti-unionist and fervent Catholic,Duplessis and his party,the Union Nationale, dominated provincial politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. With a total of 18 years and 82 days in office,he remains the longest-serving premier in Quebec history.
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Paul-Émile Borduas was a Québécois artist known for his abstract paintings. He was the leader of the avant-garde Automatiste movement and the chief author of the Refus Global manifesto of 1948. Borduas had a profound impact on the development of the arts and of thought,both in the province of Quebec and in Canada.
Antonio J. Barrette was a Canadian politician born in Joliette,Quebec,Canada,who served as the 18th premier of Quebec.
Georges-Émile Lapalme was a politician in Quebec,Canada and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec,and leader of the Quebec Liberal Party.
Monique Gagnon-Tremblay is a politician in Quebec,Canada. She was the MNA for the riding of Saint-François in the Estrie region from 1985 to 2012. She served as Liberal leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec from May 1998 to December 1998 and Deputy Premier in 1994 and from 2003 to 2005.
Paul Gérin-Lajoie,was a Canadian lawyer,philanthropist,and a former member of the National Assembly of Quebec and Cabinet Minister.
Matapédia is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec,Canada,which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is at the western edge of the GaspéPeninsula.
The 28th Legislative Assembly of Quebec / 28th National Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec,Canada that was elected in the 1966 Quebec general election. The name change from Legislative Assembly of Quebec to National Assembly of Quebec came into effect on December 31,1968. The assembly sat for five sessions,from 1 December 1966 to 12 August 1967;on 20 October 1967;from 20 February 1968 to 18 December 1968;from 25 February 1969 to 23 December 1969;and from 24 February 1970 to 12 March 1970. The Union Nationale government was led by Daniel Johnson until his death in office,and then by Jean-Jacques Bertrand. The Liberal opposition was led by Jean Lesage and then by Robert Bourassa.
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Joseph-William Gagnon was a politician in the Quebec,Canada. He served as Member of the Legislative Assembly.
François Gagnon was a Canadian politician from Quebec.
Raymond Bernier is a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec. He was first elected to represent the riding of Montmorency in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2003 provincial election,but was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by Hubert Benoît of the Action démocratique du Québec. He was subsequently re-elected in the 2008 provincial election. He is a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon was a notary and political figure in Québec. He represented Kamouraska in the Legislative Assembly of Québec from 1878 to 1890 as a Liberal.
Peter Feldstein is a Canadian literary translator,who won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation at the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Paul-Émile Borduas:A Critical Biography,his translation of François-Marc Gagnon's Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) :biographie critique et analyse de l'œuvre,a biography of painter Paul-Émile Borduas.
Alcide Courcy was a Canadian politician,cabinet minister and a four-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
Yannick Gagnon is a Canadian politician,who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. He represents the riding of Jonquière as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.