- Firmin Dugas
Firmin Dugas (
March 8 1830 –March 16 1889 ) was aQuebec businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of theCanadian House of Commons representing Montcalm from 1871 to 1887 and in theLegislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1874.He was born in Rawdon Township,
Lower Canada in 1830 and studied atCollège de l'Assomption . Dugas owned and operated severalsawmill s and flour mills at Saint-Liguori. He was mayor of Saint-Liguori from 1860 to 1862. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1867; he was elected to the House of Commons in an 1871 by-election afterJoseph Dufresne resigned his seat to accept a post as sheriff. Dugas resigned his seat in the Quebec assembly in 1874 when it became illegal to hold seats in both houses.He died at Saint-Liguori in 1889.
His son Joseph-Louis-Euclide also later represented Montcalm in the House of Commons.
External links
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/FRA/Membres/notices/d/DUGAF.htm Biography from Assemblée nationale du Québec] fr icon
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=10337&s=M Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]s-ttl|title=
Member of Parliament from Montcalm
years=1871–1887
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