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Dowina-Évariste Joyal
Canadian politician
D.-Évariste Joyal, likely named Dowina-Évariste Joyal (May 30, 1892 – January 18, 1956) was a Canadian provincial politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Chambly from 1939 to 1948.[1]
Born in Drummondville, Quebec, he was the son of Émile Joyal, farmer, and Philomène Caron. On June 12, 1916 he married Marie Rose-Hectorine Desmarais, daughter of Hector Desmarais and Arsélia Angers. He was manager of the Bank of Montreal branch in Saint-Ours, Quebec and manager of South Shore Homes and Land Ltd. in MacKayville (Saint-Hubert) for 25 years. He was on the municipal board of the parish of Saint-Antoine de Longueuil from 1923 to 1930.
Joyal won his seat in the 1939 for the Quebec Liberal Party, and was re-elected in 1944, but defeated in 1948.
He died in Montreal aged 63 years 8 months, and is buried in the cemetery of Saint Lambert