Pierre-Alexis "Pitre" Tremblay (December 27, 1827 – January 4, 1879) was a surveyor and

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political figure. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1867 to 1875 and 1878 to 1879. He was born in La Malbaie,

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, in 1827 and studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec. Near the end of 1853, he began carrying out surveys in the Saguenay region. As a journalist, he contributed to a number of newspapers of the time: ''Le Canadien'', ''La Nation'', ''Le National'', ''L’Événement'' and ''L’Éclaireur''. He was elected to

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for Chicoutimi—Saguenay in an 1865 by-election. In

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, he was elected to the

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in Chicoutimi-Saguenay; in the same year he was elected to the

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in the same riding; such

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s were legal at the time. He was re-elected provincially in 1871 in the same seat, and in

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he was elected in

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federally. He resigned from the Quebec seat in 1874 when holding seats in both legislatures became illegal. His election in Charlevoix was invalidated in August 1875. He was defeated in a by-election held in 1876 but was able to overturn this result in the

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in 1877 by demonstrating that the Quebec clergy had exerted undue influence against him during the election. He represented Charlevoix federally from 1878 until his death in

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in 1879. From 1862 to 1868, he was involved with Félicité Angers, better known as the author Laure Conan, but he married Mary Ellen Connoly in 1870.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tremblay, Pierre-Alexis 1827 births 1879 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 19th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec