Joseph-Edouard Perrault

Beginnings

Joseph-Edouard Perrault was born with Malbaie the July 30th 1874. He is the son of Joseph-Stanislas Perrault and Louisa Brault and is the nephew of the journalist Joseph-Israel Tarte. His/her father was appointed preserving of Charlevoix to the House of Commons of Canada of 1879 with 1881.

Perrault follows the traces of his/her father. He studies the right to the College of Holy-Anne-of Pocatière, to the Séminaire of Quebec and the Université Laval and is allowed with the Barreau of Quebec in 1898. He makes a training course at the lawyer office of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and becomes a close friend of the future Prime Minister. He is his distant relative besides and serves the mass at the time of his marriage.

In 1898, it moves in with Arthabaska where it practices the right of 1898 to 1904. He is Crown attorney for the district of Arthabaska of 1906 with 1916 and will be barristers president of the same district of 1909 with 1911 and of 1921 with 1922. During these years, he is member of the steering committee of several companies the such general Trust of Canada , the Noranda Mines , the Noranda Copper and Brass , the Pamour Porcupine Gold , the Quebec Airways and the Ritz-Carlton . In 1930, he will be managing director of the Mutual Life Insurance .

Of 1906 with 1916, it also holds the presidency of the school commission of Arthabaska.

The policy

Perrault makes initially of the municipal policy by exerting the function of alderman of the town of Arthabaska of 1907 with 1916. With the autumn 1910, he is liberal candidate with the federal by-election of Drummond-Arthabaska. The context is however difficult: the Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier has just made adopt a law authorizing the construction of ten warships in order to give them to the Great Britain. This policy is badly seen Inhabitants of Quebec separatists of the time, such Henri Bourassa and Armand Lavergne. Those are combined to the conservatives and succeed in making beat Perrault with the election of the November 2nd.

Perrault then decides to launch out in provincial policy and gains the county of Arthabaska with the general election of 1916. Three years later, he is re-elected appointed in the same county and the Prime Minister Lomer Gouin decides to insert it in his cabinet by appointing it Minister for Colonization, the Mines and the Fisheries. When Taschereau becomes in its turn Prime Minister in 1920, it confirms it at this station.

The minister

During its mandate, the development of the Abitibi becomes one of its priorities. He encourages colonization and encourages the mining companies to settle there. He also institutes a program of colonization aiming at making return to Quebec Canadian-French who settled in New England during the last decades. As the federal government refuses to subsidize part of this last program, he will be of good part a failure.

In 1921, it also makes adopt a law separating the grounds clearly having to be used for colonization and those dedicated with the forest Industrie. It also decides to recognize the privately held companies of colonization.

In 1923, Perrault is elected at the same time in the county of Arthabaska and the new county of Abitibi. It yields this one to Hector Authier. Thereafter, he is re-elected with the elections of 1927, 1931 and 1935.

In 1929, Taschereau proceeds to a cabinet reshuffle and Perrault becomes Minister for Voierie. The economic difficulties of the time make that he prefers to stick to a policy of management but, in 1935, he takes all the same the first steps to make build the road having to connect Mount-Bay-tree to Senneterre.

In December 1935, it takes again the post of minister of Colonization, its predecessor Irenee Vautrin having lost in its county at the time of the last election. Taschereau then thinks of taking its retirement and would like to see it succeeding to him. At the time of a new rehandling, in March 1936, it yields the post of public prosecutor to him that itself held since he had become Prime Minister.

The Liberal party is however then in full failure, Duplessis updating a series of scandals which sullies it deeply. Perrault is not implied there but prefers all the same to be withdrawn in order to leave its place to somebody of young person. The June 11th 1936, the same day when Taschereau resigns, it announces its departure of the political life.

End of a career

In 1940, Perrault will practice the right to Montreal. The same year, the Prime Minister Adélard Godbout names it at the joint International commission of water bordering of which he becomes the president in 1947.

He dies the June 13rd 1948 and is buried with Arthabaska. He had been named knight of the Légion of honor of France in 1926.

See too

References

Bernard Vigod, Taschereau , North, 1996.

External bonds and documents

Biographical note on the site of the National Assembly of Quebec

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