Joseph_Demers_(Quebec_MLA)

Joseph Demers (Quebec MLA)

Joseph Demers (Quebec MLA)

Canadian politician

For the federal MP representing St. Johns—Iberville, see Joseph Demers (Quebec MP).

Joseph Demers (November 11, 1861 – August 16, 1936) was a Canadian politician in the province of Quebec.

Quick Facts Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Mégantic, Preceded by ...

Born in Sainte-Julie (Laurierville), Canada East, the son of Édouard Demers and Olympe Rousseau, Demers was educated in Sainte-Julie. He started clerking in 1877 until 1883 when he opened a general store in Thetford Mines. He was a councillor from 1890 till 1893, mayor from 1893 to 1895, and alderman from 1903 to 1905. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the electoral district of Mégantic in the 1912 election. A Liberal, he did not run in the 1916 election.

References

  • "A cyclopædia of Canadian biography". Internet Archive.
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.


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