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Dollard (electoral District)
Dollard was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1953 to 1988. History This riding was created in 1952 from parts of Laval and Mount Royal. In 1966, it was defined to consist of: * the City of Saint-Laurent; * the Towns of Dollard-des-Ormeaux and Roxboro; * two parts of the City of Pierrefonds, one situated northeast of the Town of Roxboro, and the other bounded on one side by Des Prairies River and on the three other sides by the Town of Roxboro; * the part of the City of Montreal bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of the Montreal-Laurentians Autoroute and Des Prairies River; east following the Autoroute to the northwestern limit of the City of Saint-Laurent; along the limit with the City of Montreal to the northeastern limit of the City of Pierrefonds; northwest along that limit to Des Prairies River; and back to the Autoroute. In 1976, it was redefined to consist of: * the Towns of Dolla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a Riding (division), riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each Provinces and territories of Canada, provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), National Assembly of Quebec, Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Jean-Pierre Goyer, (January 17, 1932 – May 24, 2011) was a lawyer and Canadian Cabinet minister. Early life and education Goyer was born in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, the son of Gilbert and Marie-Ange Goyer. His wealthy family owned a coal distribution company in Montreal. He was educated at two ''collèges classiques'', the College St. Laurent and the College Ste. Marie. Goyer received the standard education of the French-Canadian ''grande bourgeoisie'' at the ''collèges classiques'' with a strong emphasis on French, Catholic theology, the classics, and math. He graduated from the University of Montreal in 1953. His first wife was Michelle Gascon, by whom he had three daughters. In the 1970s he was linked to the economist Marie-Josée Drouin, whom he described as his "common-law wife", even through he was married to Gascon at the time. MP 1965 - 1968 term Goyer was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal Party of Canada Member of Parliament for D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Federal Electoral Districts Of Canada
This is a list of past arrangements of Electoral district (Canada), Canada's electoral districts. Each district sends one member to the House of Commons of Canada. Federal electoral districts in Canada are re-adjusted every ten years based on the Canadian census and proscribed by various constitutional seat guarantees, including the use of a grandfather clause, for Quebec, the Central Canadian Prairies, Prairies and the Maritimes, Maritime provinces, with the essential proportions between the remaining provinces being "locked" no matter any further changes in relative population as have already occurred. Any major changes to the status quo, if proposed, would require constitutional amendments approved by seven out of ten provinces with two-thirds of the population to ratify constitutional changes allowing changes in the existing imbalance of seats between various provinces. During the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012, 2012 federal electoral redistribution, an attempt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Canadian Electoral Districts
This is a list of Canada's 343 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as '' ridings'' in Canadian English) as defined by the ''2023 Representation Order''. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to the House of Commons of Canada every election. Provincial electoral districts often have names similar to their local federal counterpart but usually have different geographic boundaries. Canadians elected members for each federal electoral district most recently in the 2025 federal election on April 28, 2025. There are four districts established by the ''British North America Act 1867'' that have existed continuously without changes to their names or being abolished and reconstituted as a riding due to redistricting: Beauce (Quebec), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Shefford (Quebec), and Simcoe North (Ontario). These districts, however, have undergone territorial changes since their inception. Alberta – 37 seats * Air ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Weiner
Gerald "Gerry" Weiner, (born June 26, 1933) is a Canadian politician. A pharmacist educated at McGill University and the Université de Montréal, Weiner entered local politics and eventually became mayor of Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec in 1982. He was a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1984 election, winning a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as Member of Parliament for Dollard, Quebec in the Tory landslide that brought Brian Mulroney to power. After serving for two years as a parliamentary secretary, Weiner was promoted to Prime Minister Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of State for immigration. In 1988, he became Minister of State for Multiculturalism and served in that position until 1991. He was re-elected as MP for the new riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard in the 1988 election. In 1989, he became Secretary of State for Canada. From 1990 to 1993, he was Minister of Multiculturalism and Citizenship in the cabinets of Mulroney and his successor Kim Campbel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holden (Canadian Politician)
Richard B. Holden (7 July 1931 – September 18, 2005) was a lawyer and member of the provincial legislature of Quebec, Canada. An obituary describes him as cynical and self-deprecating, a '' boulevardier'' and a maverick. Personal life Richard Holden is the son of John Hastie Holden and Marguerite Holden Hutcheson. His father was an engineer; his grandfather found fortune with a company that procured boots for soldiers during World War I. Holden studied law at McGill University and the Université de Montréal and political science at the Universite de Grenoble. A litigator, he practiced primarily in the field of personal injury and professional malpractice cases at various law firms from his call to the bar in 1956 until elected to political office in 1989. He divorced Helene Papachristidis in 1981. He was survived by children Christopher, Arthur, and Caroline. Political career Holden first entered politics running as an independent candidate in the district of W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Desmarais
Louis R. Desmarais (16 February 1923 – 25 March 2017) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a Chartered Accountant by career. In 1968, he became president of Les Entreprises de Transport Provincial limitée, and he was president of Canada Steampship Line, whose head manager in Quebec City was André Poliquin. He represented the riding of Dollard since his victory there in the 1979 federal election and his re-election in 1980. Desmarais was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Gerry Weiner of the Progressive Conservative Party. He served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments. His brother Jean Noël Desmarais was a physician and senator, and his brother Paul Desmarais Paul Guy Desmarais Sr. (4 January 1927 – 8 October 2013) was a Canadian financier and philanthropist, based in Montreal. With an estimated family net worth of US$4.5 billion (as of March 2012), Desmarais was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the ... was a billionair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Taylor (philosopher)
Charles Margrave Taylor (born November 5, 1931) is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec, and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy, and intellectual history. His work has earned him the Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize, the Berggruen Prize, Berggruen Prize for Philosophy, and the Kluge Prize, John W. Kluge Prize. In 2007, Taylor served with Gérard Bouchard on the Bouchard–Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation with regard to cultural differences in the province of Quebec. He has also made contributions to moral philosophy, epistemology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of action. Early life and education Charles Margrave Taylor was born in Montreal, Quebec, on November 5, 1931, to a Roman Catholic Francophone mother and a Protestant Anglophone father by whom he was raised biling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Rouleau (politician)
Guy Rouleau (19 February 1923 – 7 October 2010) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Dollard riding in the 1953 general election and re-elected for successive terms in 1957, 1958, 1962 and 1963, but his term in the Liberal caucus ended on 31 July 1965 before his term in the 26th Canadian Parliament ended. Rouleau did not seek further re-election after this. Rouleau became Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in February 1964. However, he was embroiled in a scandal in which Pearson's government was accused of bribery regarding attempts to secure bail Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process. Court bail may be offered to secure the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when ... for drug trafficker Lucien Rivard. The scandal affected numerous gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Laurent (federal Electoral District)
Saint-Laurent (, known from 1993 to 2015 as Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, ) is a federal electoral district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons since 1988. Since a 2017 by-election triggered by the resignation of longtime Member of Parliament (MP) Stéphane Dion, its MP has been Emmanuella Lambropoulos of the Liberal Party. Geography The district used to correspond exactly to the borough of Saint-Laurent in the city of Montreal. However, due to the 2023 redistribution, it now goes all the way up to the south of Acadie boulevard, in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough. The neighbouring ridings are Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle, Mount Royal and Pierrefonds—Dollard. Demographics :''According to the 2021 Canadian census'' Ethnic groups: 40.9% White, 18.6% Arab, 10.1% Black, 8.6% South Asian, 8.2% Chinese, 3.8% Southeast Asian, 3.2% Latin American, 2% Filipino, 1.5% West Asian Languages: 25.5% French, 15.2% Ara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
