Government Lomer Gouin

The mandate of the government of Lomer Gouin , become Prime Minister for Quebec following the resignation of its predecessor Simon-Napoleon Relative, extended from the March 23rd 1905 with the July 9th 1920.

Composition in 1905

  • John Charles McCorkill: provincial treasurer.

  • Louis-Rodolphe Roy: provincial secretary.

  • Auguste Tessier: minister of 'Agriculture.

  • Louis-Jules Allard: public Colonization and Minister for Labor.

Rehandling in May 1905:

  • Louis-Jules Allard: public Minister for Labor, Minister for Labor.

  • Jean Prévost: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

Rehandling in 1906:

  • Auguste Tessier: provincial treasurer.

  • Louis-Jules Allard: Minister for Agriculture.

Composition in 1907

  • Lomer Gouin: Prime Minister, public prosecutor.

  • William Alexander Weir: provincial treasurer.

  • Louis-Rodolphe Roy: provincial secretary.

  • Louis-Jules Allard: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Charles Devlin: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Adélard Turgeon: Minister for the Grounds and the Forests.

Rehandling in 1909:

  • Louis-Jules Allard: Minister for the Grounds and the Forests.

Composition in 1910

  • Lomer Gouin: Prime Minister, public prosecutor.

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: public Minister for Labor, Minister for Labor.

  • Charles Devlin: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Louis-Jules Allard: Minister for the Grounds and the Forests.

Rehandling in 1914:

  • Honore Draper II: Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries.

  • Joseph-Adolphe Tessier: Minister for Voierie.

Composition in 1919

  • Lomer Gouin: Prime Minister.

  • Louis-Alexandre Taschereau: public prosecutor.

  • Walter Mitchell: provincial treasurer, Minister for the municipal Businesses.

  • Joseph-Edouard Charon: Minister for Agriculture.

  • Honore Draper II: Minister for the Grounds and the Forests.

  • Antonin Galipeault: public Minister for Labor, Minister for Labor.

  • Joseph-Adolphe Tessier: Minister for Voierie.

Chronology

  • March 23rd 1905: the Gouin cabinet is sworn in front of the lieutenant-governor Louis-Amable Jetté. To be accepted Québécois clergy, Gouin had to promise that it would not restore the ministry for the State education.

  • April 25th 1905: resumption of the first session of the Eleventh Legislature. The ministry for Colonization, disappeared under Relative, is restored. The Ministry of Labor is created.

  • 1906 : Sherbrooke is the first city to require the municipalization of electricity but she is refused to him.

  • 8 - October 13rd 1906: third conference interprovinciale, which claims a readjustment of federal subsidy.

  • January 15th - March 14th 1907: third session of the Eleventh Legislature. Gouin announces the foundation of two technical training schools, in Quebec and Montreal, as well as the creation of a school of the High Commercial Studies in Montreal.

  • July 9th 1907: Henri Bourassa announces that it is thrown in the provincial arena. The nationalist League will introduce candidates to the next election.

  • March 3rd 1908: with the inauguration of the new session, Quebec announces a project of improvement roads for the cars in the campaigns.

  • June 8th 1908: general elections: the liberals gain 58 counties against 13 for the conservatives. The nationalist League makes elect two candidates: Armand Lavergne and Henri Bourassa (gaining in two counties).

  • January 1910: foundation of the newspaper the Duty by Henri Bourassa.

  • Spring 1910: the legislative Parliament vote the law Lavergne on the obligatory use of the French language in the services of public utility.

  • September 1910: inauguration of the school of the High Commercial Studies.

  • September 21st 1911: the Conservative party of Robert Borden gains the federal election.

  • January 10th 1912: opening of the fourth session of the Twelfth Legislature. Gouin announces that $10 million will be devoted to the improvement of the rural voiery.

  • February 27th 1912: Ottawa announces that the Ungava and all the territory of the New Quebec make from now on integral part of Quebec.

  • May 15th 1912: the liberals gain the general elections with 64 seats against 15 for the conservatives and 2 independent. Lavergne is re-elected in Montmagny.

  • Be 1913: Gouin in France in the search of possible investments for Quebec.

  • January 1914: the Daily Mail announces that legislative advisers received bribes at the time of the last session. A Board of inquiry states that these advisers as well as the deputy Mousseau Joseph-Octave received $4000 in bribe. They must resign.

  • January 12th 1915: at the time of a speech in Room, Gouin claims justice for the Ontarian French-speaking minority and requires the abrogation of Payment 17.

  • January 14th 1916: Lavergne starts a controversy in Room when he declares that he is more honourable to rather defend the French language in Ontario than going to fight for England in the trenches of France.

  • May 22nd 1916: Lomer Gouin gains the general elections with 75 liberals against only 6 conservatives.

  • November 9th 1916: Arthur Sauvé succeeds Philémon Cousineau as chief of the Conservative party.

  • December 17th 1917: the Borden government is re-elected in Canada. In Quebec, its defeat is crushing because it succeeds in making there elect only 3 candidates, all in the anglophone counties.

  • December 21st 1917: motion Francoeur with the Parliament: That this Room thinks that the province of Quebec would be laid out to accept the rupture of the federative pact of 1867 if, in the other provinces, one believes that it is an obstacle with the union with the progress and the development of Canada .

  • January 23rd 1918: Gouin requires the withdrawal of Francoeur motion. For him, the conscription and " insults made by a small number " are not a sufficient reason for separation.

  • March 28th April 1st 1918: a riot in Quebec against the conscription makes 4 dead when the army shoots at the demonstrators.

  • March 5th 1919: adoption of a law authorizing the children to attend the cinemas.

  • April 10th 1919: Québécois referendum on prohibition. With the " question; are you of opinion that the sale of beers, ciders, and light wines as defined by the law should be allowed? " , 129,679 people decide for Yes and 226,545 for Not.

  • June 23rd 1919: Lomer Gouin gains its last general elections with 74 liberals of elected officials against 5 conservatives and 2 independent. 70% of the population voted for the liberals, an unequalled record in the history of Quebec.

  • July 8th 1920: Lomer Gouin announces its next resignation. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau succeeds to him the head of the government.

Characteristics

Lomer Gouin is not well seen by the clergy at the beginning of its mandate because, at the time of its predecessors Marchand and Parent, it had not hidden that it wished a deep reform in education. It must promise not to restore the ministry for the State education to be accepted. Its reform in education is thus only partial because it is limited to the foundation of the two technical training schools of Montreal and Quebec and to that of the High Commercial Studies.

Duration of its government (15 years) made contrast with the preceding governments of which longest had lasted only 6 years. He dissociates also his predecessor by his independence opposite the federal big brother. Besides he gives to the mode the principle of the provincial Autonomie expensive to Mercier and does not hesitate to criticize Ottawa when federal subsidies seem to him too low.

Like that of Relative, the Gouin government put on industrialization and liberalism but while placing however certain beacons there. It does not sell any more the hydraulic resources but rents them by lease. In 1910, it puts the embargo on the wood paste export crossed on the public grounds: it must from now on be transformed into paste and paper in Quebec before being exported. This measurement develops the industry of pastes and paper in the province.

The Gouin government is the first to make construction of roads for the cars in the campaigns one of its priorities. This measurement encourages the colonization which takes a new departure.

In 1914-1918, Gouin decides for the effort of war and the enrôlement voluntary one but openly denounces the law on the conscription. Francoeur motion is a hardly buckled threat concerning the separation of Quebec, but Gouin ends up requiring its withdrawal rather than to continue in this way.

Apràs the war, it starts to prepare the ground with its resignation. L gives more responsibilities to its designated successor, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, and the way paves to him by gaining its victory crushing with the general elections of 1919.

Sources

  • Robert Rumilly. History of the province of Quebec .

  • Jacques Lacoursière. popular History of Quebec , volume IV. North. 1997.

  • Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher and Jean-Claude Robert. History of contemporary Quebec , volume I. Boreal Express train. 1979.

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