Jean-Noël Lavoie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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politician in Quebec, Canada
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Jean-Noël Lavoie
- Jean-Noël Lavoie (November 24, 1927 – March 17, 2013) was a notary and former political figure in Quebec.
- He represented Laval in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and then the National Assembly of Quebec from 1960 to 1981 as a Liberal.He was born in Montreal, the son of Zéphirin Lavoie and Laura Gaudreault, and was educated at the Saint-Arsène Orphanage there, at the Collège Laval in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, at the Collège de Saint-Laurent and the Université de Montréal.
- He also received officer training at CFB Borden.
- Lavoie qualified as a notary in 1951 and entered practice in L'Abord-à-Plouffe (later part of Laval).
- He served as alderman for L'Abord-à-Plouffe and was mayor from 1959 to 1961.
- Lavoie was mayor of the newly formed city of Chomedey from 1961 to 1965.
- In 1962, he founded Opinions de l'Île-Jésus/Citizen of Île-Jésus.
- He was a driving force behind the formation of the city of Laval and was its first mayor in 1965; he was defeated when he ran for reelection later that year.Lavoie ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1956 and then was elected in 1960 and re-elected in 1962 and 1966.
- He resigned his seat in the assembly in 1969 to run unsuccessfully for mayor of Laval, Quebec; Lavoie was reelected to the assembly in 1970, 1973 and 1976.
- He was President of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1970 to 1976.
- Lavoie was opposition house leader in the assembly from 1976 to 1979.
- He did not run for reelection in 1981.He was named to the Order of Canada in 1992 and to the Order of La Pléiade in 1991.
- He published La saga de Laval in 1998.
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