On Jan. 25, William Kennedy would pass away at the age of 75. He had been born in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan to a chief factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1814 and would work as a fur trader as a young man with the company. He would stay with...
Other posts in this series are at the end of this post. 1956 Venturing into the middle of the decade, Quebec was four years removed from its last election and ready to once again to go to the polls. Maurice Duplessis continued to lead the Union...
Other posts in this series at end of post 1927 For the first time in some time, the leaders of the two main parties in Quebec would not change leaders when the next election came along, four years after the last one. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau...
On Jan. 1, Joseph-Goderic Blanchet would pass away at the age of 60. Blanchet was the only person to ever serve as both Speaker of the House of Commons and Speaker of a provincial legislature. He served as the first speaker of the Legislative...