Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis,was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 16th premier of Quebec. A conservative,nationalist,anti-Communist,anti-unionist and fervent Catholic,he and his party,the Union Nationale, dominated provincial politics from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Laval is a Canadian city in southwestern Quebec,north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal,the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City,and the thirteenth largest city in Canada with a population of 422,993 in 2016.
This section of the Timeline of Quebec history concerns the events between patriation of the British North America Act and the present day.
The Union nationale was a conservative and nationalist provincial political party in Quebec,Canada,that identified with Québécois autonomism. It was created during the Great Depression and held power in Quebec from 1936 to 1939,and from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Duplessis,who led it until his death in 1959.
Jean Garon was a politician,lawyer,academic and economist in Quebec,Canada.
Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis was a politician in the province of Quebec,Canada. He served as Mayor of Trois-Rivières and as Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was the father of Premier Maurice Duplessis.
The Laval City Council is the governing body in the mayor–council government in the city of Laval,Quebec,Canada. It is composed of the mayor and 21 councillors. They are elected to four year terms with the next election scheduled for November 2025. Statutory meetings are held on the first Monday of each month.
Michael Mark Applebaum is a Canadian former politician who served as interim Mayor of Montreal between his appointment by the city council on November 16,2012,and his resignation on June 18,2013. He was the first anglophone to hold the post in over a century.
Municipal elections took place throughout Quebec,Canada,on November 1,2009,to replace mayors and councillors.
The city of Montreal,Quebec,Canada,held a municipal election at the same time as numerous other municipalities in Quebec,on November 1,2009. Voters elected the Mayor of Montreal,Montreal City Council,and the mayors and councils of each of the city's boroughs.
There were thirty independent candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election,none of whom were elected. This page has information about these candidates.
Union Montreal is an inactive municipal political party in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. It was the governing party in the city from 2001,when it won its first election under mayor Gérald Tremblay,until 2012. The party remained the largest single party caucus in the city government until the 2013 election although it lost its majority in November 2012 due to a number of councillors quitting the party to sit as independents in the wake of Tremblay's resignation. Since 2013,it has no longer been politically active.
The Green Party of Quebec fielded eleven candidates in the 1994 Quebec general election,none of whom were elected.
Saulie Zajdel is a former politician in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. He served as Montreal City Councillor for the districts of Victoria and Darlington in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce from 1986 to 2009,serving on the city's executive committee from 1994 to 2001. After running in the 2011 Canadian federal election for the Conservative Party in the riding of Mount Royal,where he lost to the Liberal candidate by less than 2,500 votes,he was employed by Conservative Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore as “a liaison between the Government and the city’s cultural communities from October 2011 until he quit in March 2012.”
The Commission of Inquiry on the Awarding and Management of Public Contracts in the Construction Industry was a public inquiry in Quebec,Canada into potential corruption in the management of public construction contracts.
Alexandre Duplessis is a Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Laval,Quebec,from November 23,2012 until June 28,2013. He was selected as the new mayor of Laval,Quebec following the resignation of Gilles Vaillancourt,winning a 15-3 vote of Laval City Council over fellow councillor Jacques St-Jean. Duplessis resigned after just seven months in office following allegations of soliciting prostitutes.
Martine Beaugrand is a Canadian politician,who was acclaimed as the new interim mayor of Laval,Quebec on July 3,2013 following the resignation of Alexandre Duplessis. She is the city's first female mayor.
Marc Demers is a Canadian politician,who served as mayor of Laval from 2013 to 2021. He was elected in the city's 2013 municipal election. A former police officer,he took office at a time when the city was under trusteeship due to a corruption scandal that had enveloped his predecessors Gilles Vaillancourt and Alexandre Duplessis.
Option Verdun/Montréal (OVM) was a municipal political party in Montreal,Quebec,Canada. The party contested seats on the Verdun borough council in the 2013 Montreal municipal election.
Plateau sans frontières,formerly IntégritéMontréal,is a municipal political party in Montreal,Quebec,Canada.
