Jean-Georges Garneau

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name = Jean-Georges Garneau

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birth_date = 19 November 1864
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death_date = 5 February 1944
death_place = Quebec City, Quebec
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order = 25th Mayor of Quebec City
term_start = 1 March 1906
term_end = 1 March 1910
predecessor = Georges Tanguay
successor = Olivier-Napoléon Drouin
profession = railroad engineer, professor
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Jean-Georges Garneau (19 November 1864 - 5 February 1944)fr cite web | url=http://www.societehistoriquedequebec.qc.ca/mars08.htm | accessdate=2008-09-08 | date=March 2008 | title=Sir George Garneau | first=Monique | last=Duval | publisher=La société historique de Québec] was a Canadian politician, the mayor of Quebec City from 1906 to 1910.

Sir Georges Garneau was a railroad engineer involved in the construction of track between Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. In 1904, he became an analytical chemistry professor at Université Laval, before becoming Quebec City's mayor in 1906. From 1908 to 1939, he served as the first president of the National Battlefields Commission, which manages the Plains of Abraham site in Quebec City. [ [http://ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/_en/histoire.php "History of the park" at National Battlefields Commission] ]

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* [http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/biographies/792.html University of Sherbrooke, Bilan du Siècle: Jean-Georges Garneau (1864-1944) Homme politique, homme d'affaires]
* [http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/fr/ma_ville/toponymie/rues/garneau.shtml Ville de Quebec toponymie (Quebec City toponymy): Garneau avenue]