Pierre Garneau was a Canadian

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 businessman and politician.

Born in Cap-Santé, Lower Canada

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, the son of François-Xavier Garneau and Julie-Henriette Gignac, Garneau moved to Quebec City in 1839 to work as a clerk for a fancy-goods merchant. He eventually worked for his own importing wholesaler called Têtu et Garneau. He would later work for P. Garneau et Frère, and later still P. Garneau, Fils et Compagnie.

In 1870, he was elected as an alderman for Saint-Pierre ward. From 1870 to 1874 he was mayor of Quebec City. He was elected by acclamation to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 for the electoral district of Quebec in a 1873 by-election. In 1874, he was the commissioner of agriculture and public works in the cabinet of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville. In 1876, he was appointed commissioner of crown lands. A Conservative

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, he was re-elected in the 1875 general election

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. He was defeated in the 1878 general election

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 and was re-elected in the 1881 general election

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. He was defeated in 1886

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. In 1887, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec

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for the division of La Durantaye. He resigned in 1904.