Joseph-Alexis Dufresne was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the seventh Mayor of Shawinigan from 1920 to 1928. [1] [2]
Shawinigan is a city located on the Saint-Maurice River in the Mauricie area in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 50,060 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
He was born in 1869 near Portneuf, Quebec and was a physician. He moved to Shawinigan in 1901.
Portneuf is a municipality in the Portneuf Regional County Municipality, in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is located on the Saint Lawrence River, between Quebec City and Trois-Rivières. The Portneuf River runs on the east side of the town centre.
Dufresne served as school board member and also as council member from 1902 to 1906 and 1911 to 1913.
He ran for Mayor in Shawinigan in 1920 and won. He was re-elected in 1922, 1924 and 1926.
Under his administration, the following institutions or facilities were put into place:
- Chamber of Commerce and Industrie of Shawinigan;
- Fire station #1 (Place du Marché, Downtown);
- Fire station #2 (2023, avenue Champlain);
- Parc Saint-Marc;
- Union musicale de Shawinigan (the local philharmonic choir).
Dufresne was the Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Saint-Maurice in the 1908, 1912, 1919 and 1923 elections. Each time he lost.
The Conservative Party of Quebec was a political party in Quebec, Canada, from 1867 until 1936, when it merged with members of the Action libérale nationale to form the Union Nationale.
Saint-Maurice is a provincial electoral district located in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. It includes part of the city of Shawinigan; it does not, however, include the parish municipality of Saint-Maurice.
He left active politics in 1928 for health reasons. He died in the same year.
Rue Dufresne in the Saint-Marc neighborhood was named to honor him.
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The Saint-Maurice River flows North to South in central Quebec from Gouin Reservoir to empty into the Saint Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières, in province of Quebec, in Canada. From its source at Gouin Reservoir, located at the same latitude as the Lac Saint-Jean, the river has a total drop of about 405 meters, to finally reach the river Trois-Rivières. The river is 563 km in length and has a drainage basin of 43,300 km². Saint-Maurice river is one of the most important tributaries of St. Lawrence river.
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