Joseph-Norbert-Alfred McConville (February 28, 1839 – January 17, 1912) was a lawyer, newspaper owner and political figure in Quebec. He represented Joliette in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1885 to 1886 as a Conservative member.
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.
Joliette is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
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.
He was born in Berthier, Lower Canada, the son of John McConville and Mary McKay. McConville was educated at the Collège de l'Assomption, studied law in Drummondville and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1865. He set up practice in Joliette. McConville was secretary-treasurer for the school board for Grantham, Wendover and Simpson and for the municipality of Saint-Germain-de-Grantham. He was co-owner and editor of the newspaper L'Industrie with his brother Lewis Arthur. McConville was also co-owner of the Compagnie d'imprimerie de Joliette which published the Gazette de Joliette. He served as school commissioner for Joliette from 1860 to 1890 and also served as captain in the militia. In 1874, he married Anne Marguerite Kittson. He was elected to the provincial assembly in an 1885 by-election held after Vincent-Paul Lavallée was named to the province's Legislative Council and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1886. McConville served as prothonotary for the Quebec Superior Court at Joliette from 1897 to 1909. He died in Joliette at the age of 72.
The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current-day Province of Quebec, Canada, and the Labrador region of the modern-day Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
John McConville was an Irish-born educator in Lower Canada.
Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 68,601. The mayor of Drummondville is Alexandre Cusson.
