Dorion was a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Located in the Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 region, the riding was formed in 1966 from parts of Montreal-Jeanne-Mance

Jeanne-Mance (provincial electoral district)

Jeanne-Mance was a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. The district located in the Montreal region was formed in 1966 from parts of Montreal-Jeanne-Mance which existed from 1939 to 1966. It became part of Jeanne-Mance—Viger in 2003...

. In 1994, it became part of the new Laurier-Dorion

Laurier-Dorion

Laurier-Dorion is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Montreal and includes the neighbourhoods of Villeray and Parc-Extension...

. A Montréal-Dorion

Montréal-Dorion

Montréal-Dorion was a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Formed in 1912 from parts of Hochelaga, the Montreal area district remained until 1939 when it was split into two ridings:Montreal-Jeanne-Mance and Montreal-Mercier. Dorion was also used from 1966 to 1994 for...

 district also existed from 1912 to 1939.

The riding was named in honour of Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada, Antoine-Aimé Dorion

Antoine-Aimé Dorion

Sir Antoine-Aimé Dorion, PC was a French Canadian politician and jurist.-Early years:He was born in Lower Canada in 1818, the son of Pierre-Antoine Dorion, a merchant and member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada who supported Louis-Joseph Papineau...

Members of National Assembly

• François Aquin
  François Aquin
  -Background:He was born on March 6, 1929 in Montreal and became an attorney. He is the cousin of writer Hubert Aquin.-Liberal Activist:Early on, Aquin was a supporter of the Liberal Party of Quebec...
  
  , Liberal (1966-1968)
• Mario Beaulieu
  Mario Beaulieu
  Mario Beaulieu was a Canadian notary, title attorney, Quebec politician and Senator.Born in Plantagenet, Ontario, the son of Henri de Montpellier Beaulieu and Berthe Lalonde, he was educated in Montreal and became a notary in 1956.He ran unsuccessfully for the National Assembly of Quebec as a...
  
  , Union Nationale (1969-1970)
• Alfred Bossé, Liberal (1970-1976)
• Lise Payette
  Lise Payette
  Lise Payette, is a Quebec politician, feminist, writer and columnist. She was a Parti Québécois minister under the leadership of Premier René Lévesque and National Assembly of Quebec member for the riding of Dorion....
  
  , Parti Québécois
  Parti Québécois
  The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...
  
   (1976-1981)
• Hugette Lachapelle, Parti Québécois (1981-1985)
• Violette Trépanier
  Violette Trépanier
  Violette Trépanier is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. She was a Liberal member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994 and was a minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson....
  
  , Liberal (1985-1994)