Joseph_Girard_(Canadian_politician)

Joseph Girard (Canadian politician)

Joseph Girard (Canadian politician)

Canadian politician

Joseph Girard (August 2, 1853 – April 3, 1933) was a Canadian politician.

For other people with the same name, see Joseph Girard.
Quick Facts Member of the Canadian Parliament for Chicoutimi—Saguenay, Preceded by ...

He was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec for Lac-Saint-Jean at the general elections of 1892 and re-elected in 1897. A Conservative, Girard was first elected in 1900 from the riding of Chicoutimi—Saguenay. He remained in parliament for seventeen years until his defeat in the Conscription crisis election of 1917 when he ran as a supporter of the Conservative-Unionist government's conscription policy.

References

  • Joseph Girard (Canadian politician) – Parliament of Canada biography
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.


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