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About Louis-Zéphirin Joncas
- Louis-Zéphirin Joncas (26 July 1846 – 28 March 1903) was a Canadian civil servant, journalist and politician. Born in Grande-Rivière, Lower Canada, the son of Léon Joncas and Esther Beaudin, Joncas was educated at the Collège Masson in Terrebonne and studied law in Montreal.
- He came back to Grande-Rivière to help his family financially and was a teacher.
- He later worked as an accountant, general agent, and manager of the Gaspé Fishing Company in Grande-Rivière. From 1876 to 1887, he was the sheriff for Gaspé county.
- He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Gaspé in the 1887 federal election.
- A Conservative, he was re-elected by acclamation in the 1891 election.
- He did not run in the 1896 election. From 1892 to 1897, he was also the editor of the newspaper L’Événement.
- In 1896, he was appointed superintendent of fisheries and game by Quebec premier Edmund James Flynn.
- He served in this post until his death in Quebec City in 1903.
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Jules-Isaïe Benoît
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| Description | - photographer, businessperson and pharmacist Three generations of photographers (Jules Isaï Benoît (1830-1865), Jules Ernest Livernois (1851-1933), and Jules Livernois (1877-1952)) known as "Livernois" | ||
| Date of birth/death | 22 October 1830 | 11 October 1865 | |
| Location of birth/death | Longueuil | Quebec City | |
| Work location | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | ||
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