Louis Joseph Robichaud was born on October 21,1925, in a two-storey house in Saint-Antoine, New Brunswick.
13 Facts About Louis Robichaud
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At the age of 14, Louis Robichaud left home to enter the Juvenat Saint-Jean-Eudes in Bathurst to study for a career in the Church.
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Louis Robichaud attended the College du Sacre-Coeur and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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Louis Robichaud then went on to study economics and political science at Universite Laval.
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Louis Robichaud articled with a law firm in Bathurst for three years and, upon being admitted to the bar, practised law for a short period of time in Richibucto.
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Louis Robichaud was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1952 as the youngest ever Acadian member of the assembly to that date.
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Louis Robichaud became provincial Liberal leader in 1958 and led his party to victory in 1960,1963 and 1967 before being defeated by Richard Hatfield's Conservatives in the 1970 election.
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Louis Robichaud modernized the province's hospitals and public schools and introduced a wide range of social reforms.
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Louis Robichaud restructured the municipal tax regime, ending the ability of business to play one municipality against another in order to extract the lowest tax rates.
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Louis Robichaud introduced in 1963 the Municipal Capital Borrowing Act and Board, which is designed to act as a brake for spendthrift municipalities.
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Louis Robichaud was instrumental in the creation of the Universite de Moncton in 1963, while in 1969, a high school was named in his honour in Shediac, New Brunswick.
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Louis Robichaud sat in the Senate until his mandatory retirement from the upper house on October 21,2000 upon reaching his seventy-fifth birthday.
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Louis Robichaud was a resident of New Brunswick at the time of his death from cancer at the Stella-Maris-De-Kent Hospital in Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, near his birthplace of Saint-Antoine, New Brunswick.