Joseph Fontaine

Politician

1900 –

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Who is Joseph Fontaine?

Joseph Louis-Rosario Fontaine was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born at Saint-Damase, Quebec. He was a master butcher, meat cutter, farmer and merchant by career.

Fontaine was mayor of Notre-Dame-de-Saint-Hyacinthe parish between 1938 and 1952. He was first elected to Parliament at the St. Hyacinthe—Bagot riding in the 1945 general election. With a minor spelling change to the riding in 1947, he was re-elected at Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in 1949 and 1953. He was defeated by Théogène Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

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Born
Aug 26, 1900
Saint-Damase, Montérégie, Quebec
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on July 23, 2013

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