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Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (provincial Electoral District)
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve () is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located within Montreal, and its territory mostly covers the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, and also parts of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Ville-Marie and Le Plateau-Mont-Royal boroughs. It is bordered to the east by the Canadian National Railway yard, to the south by the Saint Lawrence River, to the north by Rachel and Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territ ... Streets and to the west by Frontenac Street. It was created for the 1989 election from parts of Maisonneuve and Sainte-Marie electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members ... [...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] |
Carole Poirier
Carole Poirier (born October 2, 1958) is a Canadian politician. Poirier was elected to represent the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). Poirier is a graduate from the Université du Québec à Montréal with certificates in administration, municipal services management and public services administration. She also obtained a master's degree in public administration from the École nationale d'administration publique The (; "National School of Public Administration"; abbr. ENAP) is a graduate school in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1969 by the Quebec provincial government as a means of encouraging people to study professional public adm .... From 1997 to 2006, she was the cabinet director for the Minister of employment and social solidarity (1997–1998), the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Metropolitan (1998–2002), the President of the Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Provincial Electoral Districts
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] |
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] |
Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques
Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques () is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises part of the borough of Ville-Marie and part of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal of the city of Montreal, including the eastern portion of Downtown Montreal as well as the Vieux-Montreal area. It was created for the 1989 election from parts of Saint-Jacques and Sainte-Marie electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. Members of the National Assembly Election results , - , Liberal , Richard Brosseau , align="right", 7,989 , align="right", 30.47 , align="right", -0.67 , - , - , - , - , - , - , Liberal , Claude Longpré , align="right", 9,722 , align="right", 31.14 , align="right", -1.79 , - , - , Socialist Democracy , Ginette Gauthier , ali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taillon
Taillon () is a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises part of the borough of Le Vieux-Longueuil of the city of Longueuil. It was created for the 1966 election from Verchères and Chambly electoral districts. It was named after former Quebec Premier Louis-Olivier Taillon who was in power for four days in 1886 and from 1892 to 1896. It is best known as the riding of Parti Québécois founder René Lévesque, who served as premier from 1976 to 1985. For the better part of four decades after the PQ seized it in 1976, Taillon was a stronghold for both the PQ and the sovereigntist cause. In the 1995 Quebec referendum it voted 61% for Quebec to separate. However, in 2018, the Coalition Avenir Québec narrowly won it amid its near-sweep of Montérégie. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly This riding has elected the following members of the National Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Victorin (electoral District)
Marie-Victorin () is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in the Vieux-Longueuil Borough of Longueuil. It is bordered to the north by chemin de Chambly, to the east by the city limits, to the south by the Canadian National railway, Boulevard Desaulniers and the city limits, and to the west by the Saint Lawrence River. It was created for the 1981 election from parts of Laporte and Taillon electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained some territory from Taillon. It was named after Brother Marie-Victorin, a Quebec botanist. Members of the National Assembly Election results ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. ^ QS change is from UFP. ^ UFP change is from Socialist Democracy. , - , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercier (provincial Electoral District)
Mercier is French language, French for ''notions dealer'' or ''haberdasher'', and may refer to: People *Agnès Mercier, French curler and coach *Annick Mercier (born 1964), French curler *Amanda H. Mercier (born 1975), American Judge *Armand Mercier, (1933–2012) former Mayor and City Councilor of Lowell, Massachusetts *Andrew Mercier, Canadian politician *Auguste Mercier, French general involved in the Dreyfus Affair *Claudine Mercier (born 1961), Canadian comedian, singer, actress and impressionist *Daniel Mercier (1892–1914), French footballer and soldier *Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851–1926) Belgian cardinal *Émile Mercier (archer), French archer and Olympian *Emile Mercier (cartoonist) (1901–1981), Australian cartoonist *François Mercier (1916–1996), French footballer *Gerry Mercier (born 1941), Canadian politician and judge *Honoré Mercier (1840–1894), Canadian politician *Isabelle Mercier (born 1975), Canadian poker player *Jason Mercier, American poker player *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemont (provincial Electoral District)
Rosemont () is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of part of the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough of 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 1973 election from parts of Gouin and Jeanne-Mance 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 UFP References External links ;Information: Elections Quebec ;Election results: (National Assembly) Election results(QuébecPolitique) ;Maps 2011 map(PDF) 2001 map(Flash) 2001–2011 changes(Flas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille-Laurin (electoral District)
Camille-Laurin is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located within the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal. It includes territory between the boundary with Pointe-aux-Trembles borough and the Canadian National railway and between mostly Sherbrooke Street and the Anjou borough and the Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (, ) is a large international river in the middle latitudes of North America connecting the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. Its waters flow in a northeasterly direction from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawrenc .... It was created for the 1960 election from a part of Laval electoral district (not to be confused with the modern-day city of Laval, which was not established until 1965). In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, its territory was unchanged. The riding was known from 1960 to 2022 as Bourget. Members of the Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlottetown Accord
The Charlottetown Accord () was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canada, Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendums in Canada, referendum on October 26 and was defeated. Background The Statute of Westminster, 1931, Statute of Westminster (1931) gave Canada legislative independence from the United Kingdom. Canada requested that the British North America Acts (the written portions of the Constitution of Canada) be exempted from the statute because the federal and provincial governments could not agree upon an amending formula for the acts. Negotiations between Ottawa and the provinces were finally successful in 1981, allowing Canada to patriation, patriate its constitution by passing the ''Canada Act 1982'', which included the ''Constitution Act, 1982'' and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and finally established an amending formula for the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Quebec Independence Referendum
The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada. The culmination of multiple years of debate and planning after the failure of the Meech Lake and Charlottetown constitutional accords, the referendum was launched by the provincial Parti Québécois government of Jacques Parizeau. Despite initial predictions of a heavy sovereignist defeat, an eventful and complex campaign followed, with the "Yes" side flourishing after being taken over by Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard. Voting took place on 30 October 1995, and featured the largest voter turnout in Quebec's history (93.52%). The "No" option carried by a margin of 54,288 votes, receiving 50.58% of the votes cast. Parizeau, who announced his pending resignation as Quebec premie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
