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The Last Irish Mayor of Montreal
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The Last Irish Mayor of Montreal
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| Abstract |
A brief biography of James John Edmund Guerin (1856-1932), who served as mayor of Montreal from 1910 to 1912. The Guerin family was of French Huguenot extraction who fled to Ireland in the seventeenth century to avoid religious persecution. By the time J.J.E. Guerin's father immigrated to Canada in 1844, the family was Irish Catholic. Guerin earned a medical degree from McGill University in 1878, and entered politics in 1895 by winning a seat in Quebec's Legislative Assembly in a by-election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1897 and 1900. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Félix-Gabriel Marchand and Simon-Napoléon Parent. Guerin was defeated in 1904. After serving as mayor of Montreal, Guerin was elected to the House of Commons for the electoral district of St. Anne in the 1925 federal election, and was re-elected in the 1926 election. Guerin was defeated in the 1930 election.
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Concordia University Magazine
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Vol. 2
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no. 1
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12-16
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September-October 1978
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Burns, Robin B. “The Last Irish Mayor of Montreal.” Concordia University Magazine Vol. 2, no. 1 (October 1978): 12–16.
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