Wolfe 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 Estrie

Estrie

The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that overlaps mostly the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east."...

 region, it was formed in 1890 from a split of Richmond-Wolfe into two ridings including Richmond

Richmond (Quebec provincial electoral district)

Richmond is a provincial electoral riding in Quebec, Canada. Located in the Estrie region, the district was created in 1890. Between 1867 and 1890, it was part of the riding of Richmond et Wolfe...

. In 1970, Wolfe was merged with Richmond which the latter one kept the same name.

Wolfe was named in honour of English general James Wolfe

James Wolfe

Major General James P. Wolfe was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada...

 in which he led the troops to defeat France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 in the Battle of Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

 in 1759.

Richmond-Wolfe district

• Jacques Picard
  Jacques Picard
  Jacques Picard was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Richmond-Wolfe from 1867 to 1890 and Wolfe from 1890 to 1892 as a Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec....
  
  , Conservative Party
  Parti conservateur du Québec
  The Parti conservateur du Québec was a political party in Quebec, Canada.-Origins:The party originated as the Parti bleu which was formed around 1850 by the followers of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine...
  
   (1867-1890)

Wolfe district

• Jacques Picard, Conservative Party (1890-1892)
• Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne
  Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne
  Jérôme-Adolphe Chicoyne was a lawyer, journalist and political figure in Quebec. He represented Wolfe in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1904 as a Conservative....
  
  , Conservative Party (1892-1904)
• Napoléon-Pierre Tanguay, Liberal (1904-1919)
• Joseph-Eugène Rhéault, Liberal (1919-1921)
• Joseph-Pierre-Cyrinus Lemieux, Liberal (1921-1933)
• Thomas-Hercule Lapointe, Liberal (1933-1936)
• Henri Vachon, Union Nationale (1936-1939)
• Thomas Hercule Lapointe, Liberal (1939-1944)
• Henri Vachon, Union Nationale (1944-1952)
• Gérard Lemieux, Liberal (1952-1956)
• Henri Vachon, Union Nationale (1956-1960)
• Gerard Lemieux, Liberal (1960-1962)
• René Lavoie
  René Lavoie
  -Background:He was born on July 24, 1921 in Disraeli, Chaudière-Appalaches.-Member of the legislature:Lavoie unsuccessfully ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1960 election in the district of Wolfe...
  
  , Union Nationale (1962-1966)