- Joseph Girouard
Joseph Girouard (
April 8 1854 –March 29 1933 ) was aQuebec notary and political figure. He representedTwo Mountains in theCanadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1892 to 1896.He was born at St-Benoît,
Canada East in 1854, the son ofJean-Joseph Girouard , and studied at the Collège des Sulpiciens atMontreal . Girouard qualified to practice as a notary in 1877 and set up practice at St-Benoît. He also acted as seigneurial agent for the seigneury of Lac des Deux-Montagnes for the Sulpicians. In 1879, he married Célanire, the daughter of merchant Daniel-Adolphe Plessis-Belair. Girouard was elected to the House of Commons in an 1892 by-election held after the death ofJean-Baptiste Daoust .External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=16139&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1952 "Esquisses biographiques, 1795-1855 Jean-Joseph Girouard, l'ancien député du comté du Lac des Deux-Montagnes ...", GF Baillargé (1893)]
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