Joseph-Éna Girouard was a Canandian notary

Civil law notary

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties, provide legal advice and give attendance in person, and are vested as public officers with the authentication power of the State...

, lawyer and political figure. He represented the Drummond-Arthabaska and Arthabaska

Arthabaska (electoral district)

Arthabaska is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 1890 from a part of Drummond-Arthabaska which existed since 1867...

 districts in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Legislative Assembly of Quebec

The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature until 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, the upper house of the legislature, the Legislative Council, was abolished...

 beginning in 1886 and was appointed to the Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

 territorial council in 1898.

Early life

Born in Stanfold

Princeville, Québec

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, Canada East

Canada East

Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

, the son of Urbain Girouard and Rosalie Brunelle, Girouard was educated at the commercial college in Princeville and the Séminaire de Nicolet.

Career

He articled with Louis Lavergne, qualified as a notary in 1881 and set up practice in Drummondville

Drummondville, Quebec

Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 67,392...

. Girouard became manager of the Banque Jacques-Cartier in 1887. In 1897, he was admitted to the Quebec bar and set up a practice in Arthabaska. Girouard was secretary-treasurer for Grantham from 1882 to 1897 and for Arthabaska. He was mayor of Drummondville from 1889 to 1897.

Girouard was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1886 by-election held after William John Watts

William John Watts

William John Watts was a businessman, lawyer and political figure in Quebec. He represented Drummond-Arthabaska in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1874 to 1885 and Drummond from 1890 to 1892 and from 1897 to 1901 as a Conservative.He was born in Drummondville, Canada East, the son of...

 resigned his seat. He resigned his seat in the assembly in 1898 to become registrar for the Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

 territory. He served as a member of the Yukon council from 1898 to 1908. Girouard returned to the practice of law in Montreal

Montreal

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 in 1908. He was sheriff for Arthabaska district from 1916 to 1936. He died at Arthabaska at the age of 82.

Personal Life

Girouard was married three times: to Emma E. Watkins in 1882, to Cléophée Marcil in 1917 and to Régina Smith in 1926. His son Wilfrid

Wilfrid Girouard

Wilfrid Girouard was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec. He represented Drummond—Arthabaska in the Canadian House of Commons from 1926 to 1939 as a Liberal member and represented Arthabaska in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1939 to 1942.He was born in Drummondville, Quebec,...

served in the Quebec assembly and the Canadian House of Commons.