12 Facts About Lucien Boudreau

Lucien Boudreau found employment as a clerk in a store in Strathcona.

Lucien Boudreau ran this hotel until it burned down in 1912.

When St Albert was incorporated as a town in 1904, Lucien Boudreau was elected as a member of its first town council.

Lucien Boudreau served in this capacity until 1908, when he was elected to serve as mayor during 1909.

Lucien Boudreau ran for the Provincial Parliament in the 1905 election as the Alberta Liberal Party candidate, but was defeated by Henry William McKenney, who was running as an independent Liberal.

Lucien Boudreau was elected this time, defeating Gariepy and Conservative Omer St Germain.

Lucien Boudreau was re-elected in 1913 and 1917, defeating Conservative candidate Hector Landry both times.

In 1916, Lucien Boudreau was the only member of the Provincial Parliament to vote against the Alberta Equal Suffrage Act, which granted women political rights, including the right to vote.

Federally, when many Liberals rushed to support Sir Robert Laird Borden's Union Government during the Conscription Crisis of 1917, Lucien Boudreau remained loyal to Sir Wilfrid Laurier's anti-conscription Liberal stub.

Lucien Boudreau returned to office in 1926, but was defeated again in 1930 by St Germain, this time running for the UFA.

Lucien Boudreau, who stood little over five feet tall, was given the nickname "the Little Napoleon of St Albert" by Perrin Baker, minister of education in the cabinet of John Edward Brownlee.

Lucien Boudreau died in 1962 in St Albert and was interred at the St Albert Cemetery.