Télesphore-Damien Bouchard

Biography

Native of Saint-Hyacinthe, he is journalist, then alderman and mayor of his city, becoming the president of the Union of the municipalities of Quebec after the First World War. Member of the Liberal party of Quebec, it is elected for the first time in the district of Saint-Hyacinthe to the election of 1912 and it directs the radical wing of the Party. Its anticlericalism displeases to the bishops.

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau names it with the ministry for Industry and the trade. Of 1930 with 1935, it is the speaker of the legislative Assemblée of Quebec. In 1936, he is Minister for the Grounds and Forêts and Minister for the municipal Businesses in the first government Godbout.

From 1936 to 1939 it is chief the Official opposition with the legislative Parliament because the liberal chief Adélard Godbout could not be made elect like deputy in 1936. When the liberal return to the capacity in 1939, he is public Roadway system and Minister for Labor.

In 1940, the Prime Minister Adélard Godbout threat to resign and be replaced by him to make conceal the opposition by the female vote. When Hydro-Quebec is created in 1944, he becomes its first president.

He east becomes senator of the division of the Laurentides of 1944. At the time of its first speech as senator, he denounces the Ordre of Jacques-Cartier and the nationalists Canadian-French.

He was member of the maconnic cabin the Emancipation with Arsène Bessette. He dies in Westmount in 1962.

Quotation

This law exempts taxes the properties of the catholic Association of youth Canadian-Frenchwoman in all the provincial towns. I believe that this measurement is likely to deprive the towns of incomes which they need.

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