Pierre-Alexis Tremblay

Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (December 27th 1827 - January 4th 1879) was a politician, a journalist and a Arpenteur Québécois. He was appointed independent, then liberal of the districts of Chicoutimi-Saguenay and Charlevoix.

Native of Malbaie, it studies with the Petit seminar of Quebec, where it binds friendships with Antoine Racine and Pierre-Télesphore Sax. Become land-surveyor in 1853, it works on the Rivière Péribonka and the way of the Lac Midsummer's Day.

It presents to the elections 1858 with the legislative Assemblée of the province of Canada as a conservative candidate. Having failed, it again presents to Chicoutimi-Saguenay in 1865, when it succeeds in being elected. Of 1862 with 1870, it has an love affair with Félicité Angers, but ends up marrying in Mary Ellen Connoly in 1870.

He is elected without opposition at the same time to the House of Commons of Canada and to the National Assembly of Quebec in 1867. Independent, it passes under the liberal banner because of its opposition to the Canadian Confédération of 1867. In 1872, it still sits at the two Assemblies at the same time, provincial and federal, but the law of 1874 obliges it to be devoted only to the federal policy.

It carries out a famous electoral battle in 1876 against Hector-Louis Langevin. Red, it has sincere religious convictions, but it must face the opposition of the clergy catholic, shaken by the liberal Catholicisme and the modernistic Crise.

When Langevin overcomes it, it disputes the decision in front of the courts, but the judge Adolphe-Basile Routhier gives reason to his adversary. The decision is carried in call then finally cancelled by Jean-Thomas Taschereau.

A new poll confirms the victory of Hector Langevin in 1877. It would be of this episode that celebrates it slogan “the sky is blue, the hell is red” would have been born.

Again beaten with provincial of 1878, he is elected last once at the House of Commons of Canada the same year. Died in functions in 1879, its funeral is celebrated with the Cathédrale Notre-Dame of Quebec and it is buried with Sillery. Having married Mary Ellen Connolly, it did not have a child.

Its journalistic career was less known of the public, even if he had collaborated in several Canadian newspapers, of which the Nation, the Event, the National and the Canadian. Editor association of the Scout, it wrote there his public will in which it forgave with all those which had offended it during its political long career.

External bonds

biographical Dictionary of Canada
National Assembly of Quebec

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