1. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was born in Quebec City, Quebec, the son of Jean-Thomas Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court, and Marie-Louise-Josephine Caron.
11 Facts About Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau received a law degree from Universite Laval and was admitted to the Barreau du Quebec on July 9,1889.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau practised his profession in the law firm of Charles Fitzpatrick and Simon-Napoleon Parent.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was journalist at the Action Liberale and president and vice-president of the Banque d'Economie de Quebec.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau's policies challenged the traditional agrarian society that the dominance and influence of the Roman Catholic Church had been able to maintain in Quebec longer than elsewhere in North America.
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The Liberals of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau were primarily opposed by ultramontane nationalists such as Henri Bourassa, editor of Le Devoir, and Roman Catholic priest Lionel Groulx, editor of L'action canadienne-francaise.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau introduced a measure in 1930 to create a Jewish board that would have provided for Jewish participation on the highest decision-making educational body in Quebec, the Quebec Council of Public Instruction.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau created the Beaux-Arts schools in Quebec City and Montreal and subsidized scientific and literary works.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was awarded France's Legion of Honour, the Order of Leopold, and made a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.
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Louis-Alexandre Taschereau won the 1923 election, 1927 election, 1931 election and 1935 election and resigned in 1936.
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On his passing in Quebec City in 1952, Louis-Alexandre Taschereau was interred in the Cimetiere Notre-Dame-de-Belmont in Sainte-Foy, Quebec.