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Acadie (electoral District)
Acadie is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located in northern Montreal and consists of parts of the Saint-Laurent and Ahuntsic-Cartierville boroughs. It was created as L'Acadie for the 1973 election from parts of Ahuntsic and Saint-Laurent electoral districts. It changed to its present name in 1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W .... In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results * Result compared to Action démocratique References External links ;Information: Elections Quebec ;Election results: as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acadia (federal Electoral District)
Acadia was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1968. History Acadia was created in 1924 from Battle River, Red Deer, Medicine Hat and Bow River ridings. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Battle River, Crowfoot, Medicine Hat, Palliser and Red Deer ridings. Members of Parliament This riding elected the following members of Parliament: # Robert Gardiner, Progressive/ United Farmers (1925–1935) #Victor Quelch, Social Credit (1935–1958) #Jack Horner, Progressive Conservative (1958–1968) Election results † John Naismith campaigned under the All Canadian Party designation, the only candidate ever to do so. See also * List of Canadian electoral districts * Historical federal electoral districts of Canada * Acadia (provincial electoral district) Acadia was a Provinces and territori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine St-Pierre
Christine St-Pierre (born June 10, 1953, in Saint-Roch des Aulnaies, Quebec) is a Canadian journalist and politician, who was MNA for the Montreal provincial riding of Acadie from 2007 to 2022 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Life and career She holds a Bachelor of Social Science degree from the University of Moncton. Prior to her political career, St-Pierre worked as a journalist for Radio-Canada from 1976 to 2007. She was a political correspondent in Quebec City for five years before working as a correspondent in Washington, D.C. for four years before returning to Canada. During her stint as a political correspondent in Ottawa, she wrote a letter in Montreal's newspaper '' La Presse'' praising the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan. She was suspended due to rule infringement because of the statement of her opinion. St-Pierre entered politics in the 2007 elections and won in Acadie. Jean Charest named her the Minister of Culture and Communications and Statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Electoral Districts Of Montreal
Provincial may refer to: Government & Administration * Provincial capitals, an administrative sub-national capital of a country * Provincial city (other) * Provincial minister (other) * Provincial Secretary, a position in Canadian government * Member of Provincial Parliament (other), a title for legislators in Ontario, Canada as well as Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. * Provincial council (other), various meanings * Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China Companies * The Provincial sector of British Rail, which was later renamed Regional Railways * Provincial Airlines, a Canadian airline * Provincial Insurance Company, a former insurance company in the United Kingdom Other Uses * Provincial Osorno, a football club from Chile * Provincial examinations, a school-leaving exam in British Columbia, Canada * A provincial superior of a religious order * Provincial park, the equivalent of national parks in the Canadian provin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mont-Royal (provincial Electoral District)
Mont-Royal () is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located within the island of Montreal, and comprises the city of Mount Royal and part of the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough of Montreal. It was created for the 1973 election from parts of D'Arcy-McGee, Dorion and Outremont electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Following the change in the 2017 electoral map, the riding will be dissolved into D'Arcy-McGee and the new riding of Mont-Royal–Outremont. Members of the National Assembly Election results * Result compared to Action démocratique , - , Liberal , Pierre Arcand , align="right", 12,234 , align="right", 76.32 , align="right", +5.82 , - , - , - , , , , , Total valid votes , align="right", 16,030 , align="right", 98.73 , - , , , , , Total rejected ballots , a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurier-Dorion
Laurier-Dorion () is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of the neighbourhoods of Villeray and Park Extension in the city of Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit .... It was created for the 1994 election from parts of Laurier and Dorion electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results * Result compared to Action démocratique * Increase is from UFP References External links ;Information: Elections Quebec ;Election results: (National Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chomedey (provincial Electoral District)
Chomedey () is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located in the western part of Laval. It takes in part of the Chomedey neighbourhood. It includes most of the territory bounded by the Rivière des Prairies to the south, Autoroute 15 to the east, Autoroute 440 to the north and Autoroute 13 to the west. It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Fabre and Laval electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost some territory to Fabre. In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, it will lose some more territory to Fabre, in the area around Parc Le Boutillier. The district is named after Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville-Marie (now Montreal) in 1642. Members of the National Assembly Election results , - , New Democratic , Monique Durand , align="right", 501 , align="right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crémazie (electoral District)
Maurice-Richard is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises parts of the Ahuntsic-Cartierville and Montréal-Nord boroughs of the city of Montreal. The riding was known from 1972 to 2018 as Crémazie. It was created for the 1973 election from parts of Ahuntsic and Bourassa electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results Maurice-Richard Crémazie ^ CAQ Result compared to Action démocratique * Result compared to UFP , - , Socialist Democracy , Martine Lauzon , align="right", 218 , align="right", 0.71 , align="right", -0.38 , - , - , Natural Law , Denis Cauchon , align="right", 88 , align="right", 0.29 , align="right", -0.33 , - , Innovator , André Giguère , align="righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laval-des-Rapides (provincial Electoral District)
Laval-des-Rapides () is a provincial electoral district in the Laval region of Quebec that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is located between Autoroute 15 and Autoroute 19 and between Rivière des Prairies and Autoroute 440. It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Fabre and Mille-Îles electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small amount of territory from Mille-Îles. From when the riding was created in 1981 until 2014, the riding had always voted for the winning party in every general election. '' |
Parti Du Socialisme Chrétien
The Parti du socialisme chrétien (PSC; known in English as the Christian Socialist Party) was a fringe political party in the Canadian province of Quebec. It fielded 103 candidates in the 1985 Quebec general election. Despite its name, the PSC had no connection with Canada's social democratic political tradition. It was established by Jacques Paquette, a former heroin addict who operated drug treatment centres throughout Quebec in the 1980s. The party was primarily focused on drug issues, supporting both the legalization of cannabis and the introduction of the death penalty for traffickers in hard drugs. On one occasion, Paquette said that he would establish a leftist dictatorship in a "free Quebec" to remove heroin dealers from the province. He also promoted the use of handguns by citizen vigilantes to fight organized crime Organized crime is a category of transnational organized crime, transnational, national, or local group of centralized enterprises run to engage in ill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thérèse Lavoie-Roux
Thérèse Lavoie-Roux (March 12, 1928 – January 31, 2009) was a Canadian politician and social worker who served in the National Assembly of Quebec and the Senate of Canada. She was the Minister of Health and Social Services from 1985 to 1989. Early life Lavoie-Roux was born on March 12, 1928, in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, the daughter of Lauréat Lavoie and Charlotte Dubé. She received her undergraduate degree in 1949, and her master's degree in social work from the University of Montreal. She became a social worker and therapist at the Montreal Children's Hospital from 1951 to 1960. She served on a number of boards, including the Home Care Services for the Mentally Disturbed. In 1969, the law changed and women were allowed to be members of the Montreal Roman Catholic School Board for the first time. Lavoie-Roux was selected by the Archbishop of Montreal to be the first female member and upon her selection, she was elected as Vice-Chair. In 1970, she became the Chair, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Quebec General Election
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Agglomeration Of Montreal
The urban agglomeration of Montreal (, ) is an Urban agglomerations of Quebec, urban agglomeration in Quebec, Canada. Coextensive with the List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Montreal, it is a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a Census geographic units of Canada, census division (CD), for both of which its geographical code is 66. Prior to the merger of the municipalities in ''Region 06'' in 2002, the administrative region was co-extensive with the Montreal Urban Community. Located in the southern part of the province, the territory includes several of the islands of the Hochelaga Archipelago in the Saint Lawrence River, including the Island of Montreal, Nuns' Island (Île des Sœurs), Île Bizard, Île Sainte-Hélène, Saint Helen's Island (Île Sainte-Hélène), Île Notre-Dame, L'Île-Dorval, Dorval Island (Île Dorval), and several others. Only the first three of these islands are inhabited. The region is the second-smallest in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
