Alphonse Desjardins, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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, KPO

Order of Pius IX

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 (6 May 1841 – 4 June 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec

Terrebonne, Quebec

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 and was mayor of Montreal

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 from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.

He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada

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. He represented the riding

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 of Hochelaga

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 in the House of Commons

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 for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell

Mackenzie Bowell

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 government and then the short-lived Tupper

Charles Tupper

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 government in 1896. He was named a senator

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 in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893–1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.

In 1872, he was created a Knight of the Order of Pius IX

Order of Pius IX

The Order of Pius IX , also referred as the Pian Order , is a Papal order of knighthood founded on 17 June 1847 by Pope Pius IX.-Classes:The Order comprises five classes:...

in acknowledgment of his services to the Catholic Church.