Édouard Laberge was a physician and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Châteauguay

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1867 to 1882 as a Liberal.

He was born in Sainte-Philomène, Lower Canada

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, the son of François Laberge and Appoline Brault. Laberge was educated at the collège de Montréal

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 and McGill University

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. He qualified to practise as a doctor in 1856 and set up practice at Sainte-Philomène. In 1862, he married Nathalie Poulin. Laberge died in office at Sainte-Philomène at the age of 54.