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Joseph Morin (February 24, 1854 – March 2, 1930) was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Saint-Hyacinthe in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1900 to 1908 as a Liberal.
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.
Saint-Hyacinthe is a provincial electoral riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Saint-Hyacinthe and various other municipalities.
He was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East, the son of Pierre Morin and Tharsille Vasseur, and was educated at the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. He qualified as a notary in 1878 and practised at Saint-Hyacinthe from 1878 to 1908, in partnership with Michel-Esdras Bernier. In 1882, he married Marie-Louise-Laetitia Bourgoin. Morin was secretary-treasurer for the Saint-Hyacinthe agricultural society and was president of the Quebec agricultural council from 1906 to 1908. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1908. Morin served as auditor for the province of Quebec from 1909 to 1929. He died in Saint-Hyacinthe at the age of 76.
Saint-Hyacinthe is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 53,236. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie region, and is traversed by the Yamaska River which flows perpendicular to Quebec Autoroute 20. Saint-Hyacinthe is the seat of the judicial district of the same name.
Canada East was the northeastern portion of the United Province of Canada. Lord Durham's Report investigating the causes of the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions recommended merging those two colonies. The new colony, known as the Province of Canada was created by the Act of Union 1840 passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having effect in 1841. For administrative purposes, the new Province was subdivided into Canada West and Canada East. The former name of "Lower Canada" came back into official use in 1849, and as of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, it formed the newly created province of Quebec.
His son Louis-Simon-René served in the Canadian House of Commons.
