Alphonse Desjardins (politician)
Alphonse Desjardins | |
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22nd Mayor of Montreal | |
In office 1893–1894 | |
Preceded by | James McShane |
Succeeded by | Joseph-Octave Villeneuve |
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Hochelaga | |
In office 1874–1892 | |
Preceded by | Louis Beaubien |
Succeeded by | Séverin Lachapelle |
Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec | |
In office 1892–1896 | |
Appointed by | John Abbott |
Preceded by | Alexandre Lacoste |
Succeeded by | François Béchard |
Minister of Militia and Defence | |
In office 15 January 1896 – 27 April 1896 | |
Prime Minister | Mackenzie Bowell |
Preceded by | Mackenzie Bowell |
Succeeded by | David Tisdale |
Personal details | |
Born | Terrebonne, Province of Canada | 6 May 1841
Died | 4 June 1912 Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada | (aged 71)
Profession | businessman, journalist, lawyer |
Alphonse Desjardins, PC (6 May 1841 – 4 June 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.
He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896. He was named a senator in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893–1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.
In 1872, he was created a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in acknowledgment of his services to the Catholic Church.
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- Alphonse Desjardins – Parliament of Canada biography
- "Alphonse Desjardins". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- Gaétan Frigon: Alphonse Desjardins, lawyer, banker and politician, section in: Prudent Beaudry and other pioneering Quebec businessmen, in Legacy. How french Canadians shaped North America. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2016; repr. 2019 ISBN 0771072392 p 74 sqq (in French: Bâtisseurs d'Amérique: Des canadiens français qui ont faite de l'histoire. Dir. André Pratte, Jonathan Kay. La Presse, Montréal 2016)
- 1841 births
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- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
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- Knights of the Order of Pope Pius IX
- Mayors of Montreal
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- People from Terrebonne, Quebec
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