- Simon Cimon
Simon Cimon (
December 15 1852 –March 22 1903 ) was aQuebec civil engineer and political figure. He represented Charlevoix in theCanadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1887 to 1891.He was born at La Malbaie,
Canada East in 1852, the son ofSimon-Xavier Cimon , and studied at the Collège de Montmagny and Thom's Academy in Quebec. He was also a Provincial Land Surveyor for the province of Quebec. He served as an engineer for the Grenville Canal and then was engineer for theQuebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway . From 1879 to 1887, Cimon was employed by the Canadian Department of Public Works. In 1884, he married Marie-Julie-Charlotte-Amanda, the daughter of Paschal-Vinceslas Taché, sheriff for Kamouraska. He was elected to represent Charlevoix in the House of Commons following the death of his father in 1887.He died at Saint-Étienne-de-la-Malbaie in 1903.
External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?query=15827&s=M&Language=E Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32960 "The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1889", JA Gemmill]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=8990 "La famille Taché", P-G Roy (1904)]
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