Édouard Lacroix

Édouard Lacroix was a politician and business person in Quebec, Canada. [ [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/FRA/Membres/notices/j-l/lacre.htm Biography of Édouard Lacroix, Assemblée nationale du Québec] ]

Background

He was born on January 6, 1889 in Sainte-Marie, Beauce. He made career in forestry and opened a lumber plant in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine. [ [http://www.encyclobec.ca/main.php?docid=113 Édouard Lacroix, Un Beauceron Gaspésien] ] He was the grandfather of businessmen Marcel and Robert Dutil.

Member of Parliament

Lacroix ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Beauce in the 1925 federal election and won. He was re-elected in the 1926, 1930, 1935 and 1940 elections.

He left the Liberals and joined the Bloc Populaire Canadien on February 18, 1943. He resigned his seat on July 11, 1944 to switch to provincial politics.

Provincial politics

Lacroix, who had been a supporter of the Action libérale nationale in the 1930s, successfully ran as a Bloc Populaire candidate in the provincial district of Beauce in the 1944 provincial election. He never took his seat at the Legislative Assembly. He resigned and left politics on May 14, 1945.

Death

He died on January 19, 1963.

Footnotes

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years=1925–1944s-ttl|title=MLA for Beauce
years=1944–1945