Joseph-Barthélemi Merleau (January 18, 1891 – February 13, 1954) was a Canadian lumber merchant and politician in Quebec. He represented Gatineau in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1935 to 1936.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
Gatineau is a provincial electoral district in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada which elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes most of the area surrounding the Gatineau River, as well as portions of the Gatineau sector of the city of Gatineau north and west of Autoroute 50 and east of the Gatineau River.
The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature until December 31, 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, the upper house of the legislature, the Legislative Council, was abolished. Both were initially created by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
The son of Léon-Herménégilde Merleau, a merchant, and Helen Skeehan, he was born in Lac-Sainte-Marie and was educated at the College of the Clerics of Saint Viator in Outremont. [1] Merleau served as mayor of Gracefield from 1933 to 1937. [2]
Lac-Sainte-Marie is a municipality in the La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, 60 kilometres (37 mi) north of Gatineau. It is named after the adjacent lake.
The Viatorians, or Clerics of Saint Viator (C.S.V.), are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded in Lyon, France, in 1831 by Father Louis Querbes. Its patron, Saint Viator, was a 4th-century catechist in Lyon. The institute spread from its origins in France to Canada and later to the United States and now has provinces and missions all over the world. They are a teaching order and are involved in parish ministries and all levels of education, from grade school through university.
Gracefield is a city in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. It was reorganized on 13 March 2002 when three former municipalities were merged into one.
He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1935, then was defeated by Georges-Adélard Auger when he ran for reelection in 1936. [1]
Georges-Adélard Auger was a Canadian barber and politician in Quebec. He represented Gatineau in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 as a Union Nationale member.
From 1938 to 1942, Merleau worked in expropriation in the Eastern Townships. From 1942 to 1952, he was assistant controller for the Quebec Department of Revenue. [1]
The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in southeastern Quebec, Canada, situated between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line —the geologic boundary between the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the Appalachian Mountains.
Revenu Québec is the department of the government of the Province of Quebec, Canada that:
He was married twice: first to Veronica Stella Grace in 1912 and then to Janet Mildred Amy Laylor Gosselin in 1943. [1]
