Roland Théorêt (July 13, 1920 – September 28, 2013) was a notary and politician in Quebec. He served as mayor of Gatineau from 1957 to 1959 and from 1962 to 1965 and as a Union Nationale member of the National Assembly of Quebec representing Papineau from 1966 to 1970. [1]
Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are agents of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record instruments for private parties and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State. As opposed to most notaries public, their common-law counterparts, civil-law notaries are highly trained, licensed practitioners providing a range of regulated services, and whereas they hold a public office, they nonetheless operate usually—but not always—in private practice and are paid on a fee-for-service basis. They often receive the same education as attorneys at civil law but without qualifications in advocacy, procedural law, or the law of evidence, somewhat comparable to solicitor training in certain common-law countries.
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.
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.
The son of Siméon Théorêt and Alma Théorêt, he was born in Île-Bizard and was educated there, at the Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, at the Collège Saint-Laurent and at the University of Montreal. He practised as a notary in Gatineau from 1946. Théorêt was a member of the Gatineau school board from 1951 to 1960. He served on the Gatineau council from 1952 to 1954, in 1956 and in 1957. Théorêt served as parliamentary assistant to the Revenue minister and as deputy speaker. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1970. [1]
Collège Lionel-Groulx is a Canadian general and vocational college (CEGEP) located in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec. The college has about 5,200 full-time students and 2,000 continuing education students.
Cégep de Saint-Laurent is a public French-language college located in the Saint-Laurent borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is a few doors south of the English-language public college Vanier.
In 1949, he married Lucille Landreville. [1]
He died in Gatineau at the age of 93. [1]
His daughter Hélène also served on the Gatineau council and his nephew Claude Charron served in the Quebec assembly. [2]
Claude Charron is a former CEGEP teacher, provincial politician, writer and broadcaster.
