Hector Authier

Hector Authier (November 4th, 1881 with Angel-Guard - April 14th, 1971 with Montreal) is a lawyer, politicking Journaliste and which worked with the colonization and the development of the North-West Québécois. It was liberal Député of the district of Abitibi of 1923 with 1936. He is regarded as the father of the Abitibi .

Its beginnings

Hector Authier was born on November 4th, 1881 with Angel-Guard in the area from Granby. It is it twelfth child of Adeline Valin and Ludger Authier, a farmer who was the first mayor of the municipality of Angel-Guard. It makes its primary studies with Angel-Guard, then his secondary studies with the seminar of Saint-Hyacinthe. He studies then the right to the Université of Montreal, which is then a subsidiary company of the Université Laval, and makes his training course, in 1905, with the cabinet of Louis-Philippe Brodeur. He is allowed with the Barreau of Quebec in 1906.

In spite of its studies of right, he undertakes a journalistic career in 1905 while entering to the newspaper Canada . He is parliamentary courrierist for this same newspaper of 1907 with 1908 then becomes assistant chief of information with the Fatherland . At the beginning of the Years 1910, he is parliamentary courrierist for the catholic Action and for the Press .

Interest for Abitibi

June 11th, 1912, Authier and its family are installed in Abitibi, close to the Rivière Harricana on a territory which will be called later Amos. The government named it agent of the grounds and the mines for this area. Its task consists in identifying the grounds to be colonized by studying the reports/ratios of the land-surveyors and the inventories of the forest resources and by exploring the area, which it does most of the time in boat. It identifies several sites to be colonized between the futures Amos and the Queen, then goes back to Quebec to submit his report/ratio with the government of Lomer Gouin.

As of this moment, its passion for Abitibi does not cease any more. It takes part in several conferences in order to make promotion for colonization in front of people thinking of settling there and owes various socio-economic organizations. He persuades the Prime Minister Lomer Gouin to subsidize the forestry development there in order to encourage colonization.

April 29th, 1914, a first convoy of colonists arrives at Amos transporting 134 people including 22 families. Amos is set up in municipality and Hector Authier becomes the first mayor about it. In June, it receives the Gouin Prime Minister itself whose visit is partly wasted by a late snowstorm. During month and years which follow, several villages are founded along the railroad Transcontinental , between Amos and the Queen.

Authier is mayor of Amos and prefect of the county of Abitibi of 1914 with 1918. During this period corresponding to the First World War, it has also the task to chair the military court of exemption. It benefits from it to promote the opening of a camp of detention of prisoners of war in Spirit Lake, close to Amos.

Authier also establishes the first branch bank of Hochelaga in Abitibi of which it is managing it during three years.

Although it gives up the function of mayor in 1918, it continues to exert its task of agent of the grounds until in 1922. In 1918, he is promoter for the Compagnie of the Wood of North . At the beginning of the Years 1920, it starts to be interested in mining industry. With the assistance of associates, it founds the Read Authier Mines Limited which is established in the area of Val of Gold. He becomes the managing director besides about it. He exerts at the same time the direction of several other mining companies: the Canadian Exploration Limited , the Abana Mines , Siscoe , Lamaque , Bourlamaque , East Malartic , Canadian Malartic , Grene Stabell .

The policy

With the elections of 1923, the district of Abitibi elects its first deputy. It is about the minister Joseph-Edouard Perrault, who is elected also appointed district of Arthabaska. Leaving the county of Abitibi, a by-election is at once organized there on October 23rd, 1923 and Authier is presented in the form of a liberal candidate to it. He is elected rather easily and will also gain the general elections of 1927, 1931 and 1935.

In 1924, it turns over to the right which it practices in Abitibi.

As a deputy, it continues to promote the development of Abitibi by misant this time on mining. He claims the construction of a road connecting the Abitibi to the Témiscamingue. This one will be inaugurated at the end of the Années 1920. February 2nd, 1927, at the time of a speech with the legislative Parliament, it takes this time the construction of a way connecting Mount-Bay-tree to Senneterre. This road will be carried out of 1934 with 1939.

January 17th, 1935, the Prime Minister Taschereau appoints it temporary speaker. March 13rd, 1936, it succeeds Joseph-Edouard Perrault with the head of the ministry for Colonization. It however gives its resignation the June 11th of the same year, at the same time as Taschereau and with the election of 1936 does not represent.

In 1940, it introduces liberal candidate in the county of Chapleau to the federal elections. It withdraws definitively political life in 1945.

End of a career

Of 1940 with 1946, Hector Authier is member of the Council of the State education of Quebec.

In 1951, Maurice Duplessis decorates it about the Merit of the pioneers of Quebec and the provincial Order of the Clearer.

During the Years 1950, he is the first president of the Company of the craftsmen Canadian-French. Authier also founded the Chamber of commerce of Abitibi. In 1920, it founded and directed the first newspaper abitibien, Abitibi , become the Gazette of North in 1922.

Hector Authier dies in Montreal on April 14th, 1971. It is buried in the Cathédrale Holy-Therese-in Avila d' Amos.

Anecdotes

In 1906, Hector Authier is the promoter of the company which opens the first cinema with Quebec.

See too

Internal bonds

References

Hector Authier - National Assembly of Quebec
Hector Authier, agent of the grounds, journalist and politician (1881-1971) - Encyclobec

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