Georges Héon

Who was Georges Héon?

Georges-Henri Héon QC was an Independent Conservative and Independent Progressive Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Saint-Wenceslas, Quebec and became a crown attorney and lawyer by profession.

Héon attended Victoria Commercial College in Victoriaville, St Charles College in Sherbrooke, then the Université de Montréal attaining Bachelor of Arts and Master of Laws degrees. He served as a senior Crown Attorney for Terrebonne district, then as a municipal solicitor for Lachute. He received a King's Counsel designation by the late 1940s.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Argenteuil riding as an Independent Conservative in a by-election on 28 February 1938 but was defeated in the 1940 federal election in which he ran as an official Conservative candidate under the National Government banner the party was using in that election. Héon lost to James McGibbon of the Liberal party.

Although Héon frequently took a nationalist position, he sided with plans for Canada to join World War II when the issue was debated in Parliament in September 1939 but opposed plans to introduce conscription.