Godfroy Langlois (; 26 December 1866 – 6 April 1928) was a politician, a journalist and a lawyer in Quebec. He was a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Quebec
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for the
Liberal Party of Quebec
The Quebec Liberal Party (QLP; , PLQ) is a provincial political party in Quebec. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955.
The QLP has traditionally supported a form of Quebec federalist ideology with nuan ...
.
Biography
A native of
Sainte-Scholastique (today part of
Mirabel Mirabel, Mirabelle or Mirabell may refer to:
*Mirabel (name), a female given name
Places
Austria
*Mirabell Palace, in Salzburg
Canada
*Mirabel, Quebec, a city northwest of Montreal
*Montréal–Mirabel International Airport in Quebec
*Mirabel ( ...
), he studied at the
Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, the
College of St. Laurent and
Laval University
Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of:
People
* House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne
* Laval (surname)
Places Belgium
* Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxe ...
where he studied law. Early on, he joined the
Quebec Bar
The Bar of Quebec () is the regulatory body for the practice of advocates in the Canadian province of Quebec and one of two legal regulatory bodies in the province. It was founded on May 30, 1849, as the Bar of Lower Canada ().
History
The begi ...
in 1886, but then turned to journalism. In 1890 he began publishing ''The Echo of Two Mountains''. Anticlerical, the newspaper got into trouble and had to change its name in 1892 to ''Freedom''. He joined the editorial staff of
La Patrie, where he was editor from 1897 to 1903. He chaired the
National Club of Montreal, he was elected Liberal MP in
Montréal division no. 3
Montréal division no. 3 (or Montréal no. 3) was a former provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
It was created for the 1890 election from part of Montr ...
in
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
and
1908
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Events
January
* January ...
, and in
Montreal-Saint-Louis in
1912
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. He worked for the legalization of trade unions and various other liberal measures. In 1914, he became the official representative of the Quebec government in
Brussels
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, capital of
Belgium
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. He kept that post until his death on April 6, 1928.
References
*Patrice Dutil, ''Devil's Advocate: Godfroy Langlois and the Politics of Liberal Progressivism in Laurier's Quebec'' (Montreal, 1994)
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
Politicians from Laurentides
1866 births
1928 deaths
20th-century members of the National Assembly of Quebec
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