Tancrède Labbé
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Tancrède Labbé (b. June 18 1887, d. December 13 1956) was a prominent Québec politician and businessman.
[edit] Biography
Born in in East Broughton, Québec, to parents who operated a farm, he studied at the Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes College and studied commerce in Sainte-Marie, Québec.[1]
He first worked as a general store clerk, and after that as a manager from 1913 to 1919 and after that, became a grocer when he founded T. Labbé Ltd. He also started an ice cream plant, Produits Régal LTD, in 1921, which kept going until the '80's, but with different owners. He was a member of the Province of Quebec Ice cream producers Association and became a director for Thetford Asbestos, a mining company.[2]
He was elected mayor of Thetford Mines on February 3 1931 and kept his seat until February 9 1937. He was elected mayor again in May 1946 and stayed there until May 1951.[3]
He first tried Canadian politics in 1931, when he was defated as a Progressive-Conservative candidate for the Member of Parliament seat in the Mégantic county. He was elected MP in Mégantic in the 1935 Québec Provincial Election for the Action libérale nationale in 1935 and re-elected in 1936 under the Union Nationale banner.[4]
Defeated in 1939, he managed to get re-elected at the partial election on November 19 1940 and at the 1944, 1948, 1952 and 1956 general elections. He became a state minister in the Maurice Duplessis government in 1944.[5]
He died in office in Saint-Romulad, Québec on December 13 1956.[6]
[edit] Trivia
- Father of media mogul François Labbé
- With 11 years in office, was the longest tenured mayor of Thetford Mines until Henri Therrien retired after 12 years in office in 1999.]].[7]
- Is the only politician to have been Mayor of Thetford Mines and Provincial MP at the same time, from 1935 to 1937 and from 1946 to 1951, a practice that is now forbidden in Québec. Laurent Lessard became a Provincial MP for the Liberal Party of Québec after resigning as Mayor of Thetford Mines in 2003.
- Was the first MP from the Mégantic (now Frontenac) county to become a minister and the only Union Nationale MP from the county to do so. After him, Roger Lefebvre and [[Laurent Lessard]¸ both Liberals, also became ministers.[8]
- Honorary member of the Thetford Mines Chamber of Commerce from 1931 to 1937 and from 1947 to 1951. Member of the Canadian Club, Rotary Club and the Knights of Columbus.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
- ^ Le Soleil (November 8 1999, P. A-6) Thetford Mines: Majorité de 77 voix
- ^ Le Soleil (February 19 2005, P. A-12) Laurent Lessard n'est que le troisième ministre issu de Frontenac
- ^ Tancrède Labbé bio on the Government of Québec website.
