Firmin Dugas (March 8, 1830 – March 16, 1889) was a

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businessman and political figure. He was a

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member of the

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representing Montcalm from 1871 to 1887 and in the

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from 1867 to 1874. He was born in Rawdon Township,

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in 1830 and studied at

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. Dugas owned and operated several

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s and

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s at

Saint-Liguori Saint-Liguori () is a municipality in the Montcalm Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Demographics Population: * Population in 2021: 2,066 (2016 to 2021 population change: 6.3%) * Population in 2016: 1,943 ...

. He was mayor of Saint-Liguori from 1860 to 1862. He was elected to the Quebec assembly in 1867; he was elected to the House of Commons in an 1871 by-election after Joseph Dufresne resigned his seat to accept a post as sheriff. Dugas resigned his seat in the Quebec assembly in 1874 when it became illegal to hold seats in both houses. He died at Saint-Liguori in 1889. His son Joseph-Louis-Euclide also later represented Montcalm in the House of Commons.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dugas, Firmin 1830 births 1889 deaths Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Conservative Party of Quebec MNAs 19th-century mayors of places in Quebec 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec