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Alexandre Gelinas
(1894?1965) was a local politician in
Shawinigan
,
Quebec
. He was the tenth Mayor of
Shawinigan
from 1937 to 1938.
[1]
He was born in 1894 in
Saint-Barnabe
, in the
Mauricie
region in
Quebec, Canada
and was married to Laure Lauterreur. Although they never had children of their own, they looked after Nicole Houde who was 12 years old at the time, from 1949 to 1951. She was the niece of Laure and had just lost her mother, Therese Laterreur, sister of Laure, to
breast cancer
.
He studied law in Manitoba and also practiced as a lawyer in that province for a few years. He then returned to his home province of Quebec where he founded his own law firm (Lafond, Gelinas) located on 5
e
rue (Fifth Street).
[2]
Jean Chretien
, Canada's 20th prime minister, articled and practiced at the firm from 1959 to 1960.
He ran for
mayor
in the special election that was held on May 3, 1937, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Lucien Bourassa
and won against
J.A. Bilodeau
. During the time he was mayor, a municipal auditorium and St. Marc Park were built.
[3]
He served the remainder of Bourassa's unexpired term. In 1938, he ran for re-election but was defeated by Bilodeau.
He was a long-standing member of
Rotary International
and a governor of its Shawinigan chapter.
Gelinas died in 1965.
- ^
Fabien LaRochelle, Shawinigan depuis 75 ans, 1976
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Cinquantenaire de la Cite de Shawinigan Falls, Album Souvenir, 1901-1951
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"Archived copy"
. Archived from
the original
on 2011-07-06
. Retrieved
2010-05-25
.
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