Ernest Choquette When Politics Owns Us
Many Choquette's have left their marks in politics. Here's what we found in the Canadian Who's Whos and the directories of Parlementaries:
Ernest Choquette, M.D.: physician; legislator; born in Beloeil, Vercheres Co., P.Q., 18 Nov. 1862; son of Joseph and Marie-Thaïs Audet dit Lapointe (see his partial family tree); appointed to the Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec for Rougemont Division on 14 March 1910 (Liberal Party); mayor of St. Hilaire, P.Q. for many years.
He was known as a doctor, novelist and politician. As novelist, he wrote several books, including: les Ribaud (1898), Claude Paysan (1899) (for which he was awarded a prize by the Government of Quebec), Carabinades (1900), la Terre (1916), Madeleine and la Bouée (1927); also contributed to various journals and reviews.
He passed away in Westmount, Quebec, at 78.
(Source: Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec, 1792-1992, Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, 1993.)
He's the brother of Philippe-Auguste Choquette, uncle of Fernand Choquette, grand-uncle of Auguste Choquette and grand-father of Jérôme Choquette.
Read his obituary (in french)
Hector Choquette was born in Saint-Alphonse, Shefford County, 3 October 1884. He was educated in Saint-Alphonse School and in Precious-Blood School in Holyoke, Massachussets.
Hector Choquette started out as a journeyman in a foundry in United States. Later, he moved to Granby and then Saint-Alphonse where he became a farmer, from 1918 to 1944.
In 1935, he was elected to the Quebec Legislature for the Action Libérale Nationale representing Shefford. Was elected for L'Union Nationale en 1936. Defeated in 1939. Re-elected in 1944 and 1948. Defeated in 1952.
Hector Choquette passed away in Montréal, 8 May 1959, at 74.
(Source: Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec, 1792-1992, Bibliothèque de l'Assemblée nationale, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, 1993.)
Joseph-Armand Choquette was a farmer. M.P. for the Bloc Populaire, representing Stanstead, Quebec in the House of Commons (1943-1945). See his biography.
Lionel Choquette, lawyer and politician, was born in Ottawa 6 March 1906. Called to the Bar in Ontario in 1932, he established his practice in Ottawa. Candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in Ottawa-East constituency, Lionel Choquette was defeated twice, in 1935 and 1939. In 1958, became senator and worked for 25 years, until 1983.
(See his obituary in Le Droit) (Source: Dictionnaire de l'Amérique Française, Francophonie nord-américaine hors-Québec, Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa).
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