Victor Morin (August 15, 1865 – September 30, 1960) was a Canadian notary, politician, and writer. Born in

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, Morin studied at the Université Laval de Montréal. In 1890, he started working as a notary in his uncle's firm Papineau & Marin. He would practice his profession for the next 72 years. In 1910, he was elected to the Montreal City Council for the Centre (Vieux-Montréal) district. From 1915 to 1924, he was president of the

Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (, ) is an institution in the Canadian province of Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism. It is known as the oldest patriotic association in ...

. A Fellow of the

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, he served as its president from 1938 to 1939. He is the author of the Code Morin, a book of rules for conducting deliberative assemblies, used in Quebec and Acadia. Morin's rules are inspired by

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1865 births 1960 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada People from Saint-Hyacinthe Presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery {{Quebec-bio-stub