Jean-Noël Tremblay

Jean-Noël Tremblay, CM (7 June 1926 – 23 January 2020) was a Canadian politician, who made career at both the federal and the provincial levels.

Jean-Noël Tremblay
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Roberval
In office
1958–1962
Preceded byGeorges Villeneuve
Succeeded byCharles-Arthur Gauthier
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Chicoutimi
In office
1966–1973
Preceded byAntonio Talbot
Succeeded byMarc-André Bédard
Personal details
Born(1926-06-07)7 June 1926
Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec, Canada
Died23 January 2020(2020-01-23) (aged 93)
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative
Other political
affiliations		Union Nationale
CabinetProvincial: Minister of Cultural Affairs (1966-1970)

Member of Parliament

Tremblay was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 election representing the Quebec riding of Roberval and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He lost re-election in 1962, when for the first time the Social Credit Party made a significant breakthrough in Quebec.

Provincial politics

He won a seat to the National Assembly of Quebec, representing Chicoutimi, in 1966 and was a member of the Union Nationale. From 1966 to 1970, Tremblay was the Minister of Cultural Affairs in the cabinets of Daniel Johnson, Sr and Jean-Jacques Bertrand. He was known in this period as a vocal Quebec nationalist.[1]

Tremblay supported Jean-Guy Cardinal over Jean-Jacques Bertrand during the party's leadership convention, held on June 21, 1969.

He was re-elected to the legislature in 1970, but was defeated in 1973.

Personal life

Tremblay was born in June 1926 in Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec. He died in January 2020 at the age of 93 in Quebec, Quebec.

Honors

In 1990, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

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  • Jean-Noël Tremblay – Parliament of Canada biography
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

References
  1. Winnipeg Free Press, 5 February 1969, p. 1.


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