Adélard Turgeon

See also: Turgeon

Adélard Turgeon , CMG (December 18th 1863 - November 17th 1930) was a politician, a lawyer and a business man Québécois.

Biography

Native of Saint-Etienne-with-Beaumont, it studies the right to the Collège of Lévis and with the Université Laval and it is allowed with the Barreau of Quebec in 1887.

He exerts his trade of lawyer and he becomes Conseil in law in 1903. After having directed several companies, he is elected appointed liberal in the district of Bellechasse in 1890, 1892 1897, 1900 and 1904. Felix-Gabriel Marchand names it at the Council of Ministers as Minister for Colonization and the Mines. Simon-Napoleon Relative, the new Prime Minister, appoints it provincial secretary in 1900 after it had decided to abolish the ministry for Colonization. In 1903, it is promoted with the ministry for Agriculture.

Turgeon belongs to the dissidents within the government of Simon-Napoleon Parent, and it must resign of the ministerial cabinet in 1905 with William Alexander Weir and Lomer Gouin.

When Lomer Gouin is elected Prime Minister in 1905, he becomes Minister for the forests. Having launched a challenge with Henri Bourassa at the time of a by-election in 1907, it is elected then re-elected in 1908

Become president of the Company Saint-Jean-Baptist of Quebec in 1907, it is one of the founders of the Commission of the national battle fields.

He dies the November 17th 1930. He had received several honors and medals, of which the Ordre of Léopold of Belgium, the Légion of honor and the Ordre of Saint-Michel and Saint-Georges.

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  • Adélard Turgeon - National Assembly of Quebec

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