Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais

Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for St. James
In office
1904–1911
Preceded by Joseph Brunet
Succeeded by Louis Audet Lapointe
Personal details
Born August 13, 1864
Richelieu, Rouville County, Canada East
Died August 8, 1915 (aged 50)
Political party Liberal

Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais (August 13, 1864 – August 8, 1915) was a Canadian lawyer, professor, politician.

Born in Richelieu, Rouville County, Canada East, the son of Charles Gervais and Adele Monty, Gervais was educated at the "Petit Seminaire" of Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir and Université Laval where he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1887 and a Doctor of Laws (LL.D) in 1889. He was admitted to the Bar of the Province of Quebec on 13 January 1887 and created a Queen's Counsel in 1897.

In 1896, he joined Université Laval as a Professor of International Law and Civil Procedure. He practiced law in partnership with Horace Archambault, former President of the Quebec Legislative Council and ex- Attorney-General, Henri-Benjamin Rainville, former Speaker of the Quebec Legislative Assembly, and Paul Rainville in the firm Rainville, Archambault, Gervais & Rainville.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the Montreal electoral district of St. James in a 1904 by-election called after the 1902 by-election was declared void. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1904 and 1908.

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