See also: Taschereau (homonymy)

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (born on March 5th, 1867 and dead on July 6th, 1952) was a politicking lawyer and Québécois. He was elected four times in the district of Montmorency, starting from 1900, and was Prime Minister for Quebec of 1920 with 1936.

Biography

Born with Quebec, wire of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer and judge with the supreme Court, and of Marie-Louise-Joséphine Charon, it makes her studies with the Séminaire of Quebec and the Université Laval, where it obtains a diploma in right. It is allowed with the Bar of Quebec on July 9th, 1889.

After being itself launched in the political life, it is used as lieutenant chief within the liberal government as Lomer Gouin. It practices its profession with the law firm of Charles Fitzpatrick and Simon-Napoleon Parent. It is also Journaliste with the liberal Action and chair and vice-president of the Bank of saving in Quebec.

Election with the legislative Parliament

Elected official appointed with the legislative Parliament for the first time in 1900, he becomes later the public Minister for Labor under Lomer Gouin of 1907 with 1919. Elected official Prime Minister in 1920, at one time or the North-American economy starts to have difficulties which will lead finally to the Grande depression, Taschereau encourages the development vigorously, by the private company, of the forest and mineral resources important in the area of Ungava and Nunavik that the Parlement of Canada had added to the province of Quebec.

One of the first to preach the exploitation of the enormous hydraulic potential of the rivers of new Quebec, Taschereau includes/understands the limits of the available capital in little populated Canada, and actively works to attract American investments to develop the industrial potential of Quebec and to try to stop the massive emigration towards the United States.

Its policies put to the test the traditional agrarian company that the predominance and the influence of the Roman Catholic church had succeeded in maintaining in Quebec longer than elsewhere in North America. The liberals of Taschereau were mainly opposite with the nationalist ultramontanes such as Henri Bourassa, editor of the Duty , and the catholic priest Lionel Groulx, editor of the action Canadian-Frenchwoman .

Taschereau introduces a measurement in 1930 to create a council Juif which would have allowed a Jewish participation in the more decisional high council as regards education Quebec, the Council of the state education of Quebec. The flame attacks and journalistic against the Jewish population were frequent and often violent in a written press which sees in the attempt at Taschereau to reform the denominational system of the schools an example of the Jews to try to undermine the Christianisme. Result of this vehement opposition, the Jewish community is intimidated and does not insist on the question when Taschreau is forced to withdraw the bill and to propose a compromise which it initially subjects to the examination and the approval of the Roman Catholic church. In the bill which results from it, the Jews are returned in the system of Protestant schools, and the Jewish council does not have to be able except that to negotiate an agreement with the Protestant school commission.

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau also founds the monopoly of the government of Quebec on the sale of the wines and spirits during the era of the Prohibition to the the United States.

He created schools of the fine arts in Quebec and Montreal and subsidizes scientific and literary works. He receives the French Légion of honor, the Belgian Ordre of Léopold, and is made commander of the Ordre of the Belgian Crown.

Its government creates a certain dissatisfaction within the Liberal party. The left wing " radicale" party leaves the liberals to form a new party, the national liberal Action. Paul Gouin, the son of Lomer Gouin and grandson of Honore Draper, joint with this new party. The national liberal Action amalgamates later with the Conservative party of Quebec in order to form the National union under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis, which becomes famous by publicly denouncing the corruption of the liberal government of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau before the Committee of the public accounts of the legislative Parliament.

Taschereau resigns after his/her Antoine brother acknowledged before the Committee of the accounts which it had deposited on his personal bank account, the interests of the funds belonging to the legislative Parliament. The election of 1936 carrying to the capacity the National union puts an end to a liberal reign which had lasted 40 years.

It was buried on July 9th, 1952 in the Cimetière Our-Lady-with-Belmont, with Holy-Foy.

See too

Related article

• Government Louis-Alexandre Taschereau

External bonds

• Louis-Alexandre Tascherau - National Assembly of Quebec

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