Gilles Lamontagne
The Honourable Gilles Lamontagne PC OC CQ CD |
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24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec | |
In office March 28, 1984 – August 9, 1990 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Governor General | Edward Schreyer Jeanne Sauvé Ray Hnatyshyn |
Premier | René Lévesque Pierre-Marc Johnson Robert Bourassa |
Preceded by | Jean-Pierre Côté |
Succeeded by | Martial Asselin |
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Langelier |
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In office May 24, 1977 – March 28, 1984 |
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Preceded by | Jean Marchand |
Succeeded by | Michel Côté |
Mayor of Quebec City | |
In office December 1, 1965 – December 1, 1977 |
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Preceded by | Wilfrid Hamel |
Succeeded by | Jean Pelletier |
Personal details | |
Born | Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne April 17, 1919 Montreal, Quebec |
Died | June 14, 2016 Quebec City, Quebec |
(aged 97)
Political party | Liberal |
Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne, PC OC CQ CD (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf ʒɔʁʒ ʒil klod lamɔ̃taɲ]; April 17, 1919 – June 14, 2016) was a Canadian politician and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
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Early life[edit]
He was born in Montreal. During World War II, Lamontagne served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and was later on shot down over the Netherlands in 1943 being detained as a prisoner of war until May 1945. He ended his air force service in the rank of flight lieutenant. In 1946, he settled in Quebec City and entered the importing business. He became a member of the Rotary Club of Quebec City with his partner and neighbour Jean Poliquin.
Career[edit]
He entered politics and was elected mayor of Quebec City in 1965. He held that post until he won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal Party candidate in a 1977 by-election. In 1978, he entered the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as Postmaster General. He served in that position until the defeat of the government in the 1979 election. When the Liberals returned to power in the 1980 election, Lamontagne returned to Cabinet as Minister of National Defence.
Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (1984–90)[edit]
In 1984, he left politics to accept the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, and served as the province's viceroy until his retirement in 1990.
Personal life[edit]
Lamontagne married Mary Schaefer in 1949 and had four children and five grandchildren. Schaefer died in 2006. Lamontagne died in 2016 at the age of 97.[1] In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and in 2005, a member of l'Ordre des Grands Québécois. He was an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada club student # H15200.
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gilles-lamontagne-former-quebec-city-mayor-dies/article30463871/
- ^ Canadian Heraldic Authority (Volume I), Ottawa, 1988
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