Marc-Amable Girard

Marc- Amable Girard ( born April 25, 1822 in Varennes, Lower Canada, † September 12, 1892 in Saint -Boniface, Manitoba ) was a Canadian politician. He was Prime Minister of the Province of Manitoba and ruled on 14 December 1871 to the March 14, 1872 and a second time on 8 July to 2 December 1874. From 1871 until his death, he also belonged to the Canadian Senate.

Biography

Girard worked from 1844 in the small town of Varennes as a notary. In addition, he served as a trustee for the Notary Association of Montreal from 1859. In Varennes, he was active in local politics as a school board, a member of the city council and mayor. Both 1858 and 1863 he failed as a Conservative candidate in the election for a seat in the House of Representatives of the Province of Canada. At the suggestion of defense minister George-Étienne Cartier Girard drew 1870 in the recently created province of Manitoba, there to strengthen the influence of the Conservative Party and to reduce the tensions between Anglo - and Francophones.

Immediately after his arrival on August 23, moved Girard rebel leader Louis Riel to settle in the United States. Girard advocated that French Canadians could continue to settle in Manitoba. On September 17, 1870 appointed lieutenant-governor Adams George Archibald Girard to the treasurer of the province. In the first election to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba on 27 December of the same year he was elected in Saint -Boniface, by acclamation. He maintained his parliamentary seat after he had been appointed on 13 December 1871 Senator (then dual mandates at provincial and federal level were still allowed, albeit controversial ). The next day he took over for a period of three months, the Office of the Government of Manitoba.

In the Senate, Girard presided over the railroad committee of the Senate. From 1872 to 1876 he was in addition to the Temporary Council of the Northwest Territories, a panel of appointed members, which advised the Lieutenant Governor. After a vote of no confidence Girard took over on July 8, 1874 again the post of prime minister in Manitoba, but was overthrown on 2 December of the same year of his hand. He had to maintain contact with Riel, which mustered the English-speaking MPs against him. Although Girard 1876 lost his seat in the provincial parliament, but Prime Minister John Norquay called him in November 1879 in the provincial government. He won the seat then in Baie St- Paul and led the Treasury again. Two years later he took over the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture. On September 6, 1883, he gave up his offices at the provincial level, since dual mandates were no longer permitted. The Senate he was a member until his death in 1892.