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January 1, 1980: The Les Démocrates party (The Democrats), led by Camil Samson (CS), MNA for Rouyn-Noranda, changes his name for Parti démocrate créditiste (Democratic Creditist Party).
January 1, 1943: Louis-Joseph Moreault (LIB), MLA for Rimouski, dies in office.
January 1, 1941: Coming into force of the "Loi accordant aux femmes le droit de vote et d'éligibilité" (Act granting to women the rights of voting and eligibility), which grants to women the right of vote, a right they could exercice in Quebec from 1792 to 1849.
January 1, 1924: Louis-Philippe Brodeur, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, dies in office.
January 2, 1960: J.-M.-Paul Sauvé (UN), Prime Minister of Quebec and MLA for Deux-Montagnes, dies in office at the age of 52.
January 2, 1902: Henri-Séverin Béland (LIB), MLA for Beauce, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly.
January 2, 1896: Joseph-Octave Villeneuve (CON), MLA for Hochelaga, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as federal Senator.
January 3, 1913: Prosper-Alfred Bissonnette (LIB), MLA for Stanstead, and Frédéric-Hector Daigneault (LIB), MLA for Bagot, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following their appointment respectively as percepteur du revenu (collector of the income) and inspecteur des asiles et prisons de la province (inspector of asylums and prisons of the province).
January 3, 1889: Odilon Goyette (NAT), MLA for Laprairie, is found guilty of electoral fraud by the Superior Court during the by-election held on July 30, 1887. His election is cancelled and the Laprairie seat becomes vacant.
January 4, 1994: The Parti innovaeur du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 4, 1882: Thomas Bryson (CON), MLA for Pontiac, dies in office.
January 5, 1883: More than a year after the general election held on December 2, 1881, the Superior Court declares defeated Louis-Napoléon Fortin (LIB), MLA for Montmagny, and declares elected Nazaire Bernatchez (LIB-I).
January 7, 1980: Fernand Grenier (UN), MNA for Mégantic-Compton, resigns as Member of the National Assembly because of his decision to quit for federal politics.
January 7, 1931: Carlton James Oliver (LIB), MLA for Brome, dies in office.
January 7, 1874: Théodore Robitaille (CON), MLA for Bonaventure, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following the abolition of the dual mandate.
January 7, 1793: The House of Assembly of Lower Canada decides that a person elected in two ridings must choose for one of both seats and resign from the other one.
January 8, 1996: Denis Lazure (PQ), MNA for La Prairie, announces his dismissal as Member of the National Assembly.
January 8, 1990: Gilles Rhéaume resigns as Leader of the Parti indépendantiste.
January 8, 1987: The Parti citron obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 8, 1982: Claude Morin (PQ), Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and former MNA for Louis-Hébert, resigns as Minister.
January 8, 1960: After the death of J.-M.-Paul Sauvé (UN) six days earlier, a joint meeting of the Union nationale Parliamentary Group in the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council elect Antonio Barrette as Leader of the Party. He shall be sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec the same day.
January 9, 1981: At the outcome of a leadership convention, Roch Lasalle is elected by acclamation as Leader of the Union nationale. Michel Lemoignan (UN), MNA for Gaspé, shall remain parliamentary Leader until the following general election.
January 10, 1994: The Parti des régions obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 11, 2001: Lucien Bouchard (PQ), Prime Minister of Quebec and MNA for Jonquière, announces that he will quit political life. (more...)
January 11, 1994: After the resignation of Robert Bourassa (LIB), MNA for Saint-Laurent, as Prime Minister of Quebec, and after his election by acclamation as Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec, Daniel Johnson (fils) (LIB), MNA for Vaudreuil, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec.
January 11, 1980: Armand Russell (UN), MNA for Brome-Missisquoi, resigns as Member of the National Assembly because of his decision to quit for federal politics.
January 11, 1961: Yves Prévost (UN), MLA for Montmorency, resigns as Leader of the Union nationale for health reasons. Antonio Talbot (UN), MLA for Chicoutimi, succedes as Interim Leader the same day.
January 11, 1927: Ernest Tétreau (CON), MLA for Montréal-Dorion, quits the Parti conservateur parliamentary group in order to sit as Independent Liberal MLA.
January 11, 1910: William Alexander Weir (LIB), MLA for Argenteuil and Treasurer, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister following his appointment as judge.
January 11, 1899: By-election in Matane; Donat Caron (LIB) is elected.
January 12, 1897: Joseph Poirier (LIB), MLA for Beauce, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as sheriff.
January 13, 1858: Return of the writs of the 6^th general election to the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada. The Conservatives hold their majority in Lower Canada, but loose it in Upper Canada.
January 14, 1973: Unité-Québec changes its name to its former label: the "Union nationale".
January 14, 1888: By-election in Dorchester; Louis-Philippe Pelletier (NAT) is elected by acclamation.
January 14, 1874: Charles-Ignace Gill (CON), MLA for Yamaska, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his decision to quit for federal politics.
January 15, 1996: Lucien Bouchard resigns as Leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons, MP for Lac-Saint-Jean and Leader of the Bloc québécois.
January 15, 1993: Robert Libman, Leader of the Equality Party and MNA for D'Arcy-McGee, resigns as Leader of the Party.
January 15, 1910: Louis-Joseph Lemieux (LIB), MLA for Gaspé, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as sheriff.
January 15, 1890: By-election in Berthier; A.-E.-Omer Dostaler (LIB) is elected.
January 16, 1996: Lucien Bouchard announces that he will be candidate for the Parti québécois in the by-election to be held in Jonquière on February 19, 1996.
January 16, 1985: Francine Lalonde (PQ) is appointed as Minister for the Status of Women whereas she was not a Member of the National Assembly. She will resign as minister following a defeat in a by-election in June 1985.
January 16, 1953: The assent is given to an act voted by both houses of the Parliament of Quebec and forbidding the fact of holding simultaneously the offices of Federal Senator and Legislative Counsellor.
January 16, 1941: James Walker Ross (LIB), MLA for Huntingdon, dies in office.
January 16, 1925: John Hay (LIB), MLA for Argenteuil, dies in office.
January 16, 1913: By-elections in Bagot and Stanstead; Joseph-Emery Phaneuf (LIB) and Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet (LIB) are elected by acclamation.
January 16, 1880: Alexandre Chauveau (LIB), MLA for Rimouski, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
January 16, 1874: Luther Hamilton Holton (LIB), MLA for Montréal Centre, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following the abolition of the dual mandate.
January 17, 1970: At the outcome of a leadership convention, Robert Bourassa (LIB), MNA for Mercier, is elected as Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec.
January 17, 1917: Lucien Cannon (LIB), MLA for Dorchester, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his decision to quit for federal politics.
January 17, 1906: François Gosselin (LIB), MLa for Iberville, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Legislative Councillor.
January 17, 1874: Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (LIB), MLA for Chicoutimi et Saguenay, and Christian Henry Pozer (LIB), MLA for Beauce, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following the abolition of the dual mandate.
January 18, 1994: The Action démocratique du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 18, 1965: By-elections in Saint-Maurice and Terrebonne; Jean-Guy Trépanier (LIB) and Denis Hardy (LIB) are elected.
January 18, 1946: William James Duffy (LIB), MLA for Compton, dies in office.
January 18, 1883: Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière (LIB), MLA for Lotbinière, Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the Parti libéral, announces his dismissal as Leader of the Official Opposition and Leader of the Party and appoints Honoré Mercier (LIB), MLA for St. Hyacinthe, as his successor.
January 19, 1985: Special Convention of the Parti québécois. The delegates abandon temporarly the sovereigntist project of the Party. Given that situation, 495 delegates, led by the "orthodox" Ministers (among which Jacques Parizeau) refuse to confirm this resolution and quit the Convention.
January 19, 1882: Joseph Gibb Robertson (CON), MLA for Sherbrooke and Treasurer of the Province, resigns as Minister because of a discord with the Prime Minister of Quebec, Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (CON), about the railroad policy. He had resigned for a first time on this motive in 1876.
January 19, 1874: Wilfrid Laurier (LIB), MLA for Drummond et Arthabaska, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his decision to quit for federal politics.
January 20, 1992: By-election in Anjou; Pierre Bélanger (PQ) is elected.
January 20, 1919: Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (LIB), MLA for Missisquoi, and Médéric Martin (LIB), MLA for Montréal?Ste-Marie, resign as Member of the Legislative Assembly following their appointment as Legislative Councillors.
January 20, 1986: By-election in Saint-Laurent; the Prime Minister of Quebec, Robert Bourassa (LIB), defeated in Bertrand during the General Election of December 2, 1985, is elected.
January 20, 1874: Firmin Dugas (CON), MLA for Montcalm, and Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier (LIB), MLA for Québec Est, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following the abolition of the dual mandate.
January 21, 1948: Adoption, by an order in council, of the "fleurdelysé" as the Quebec flag.
January 21, 1874: Joseph-?‰douard Cauchon (CON), MLA for Montmorency, Hector-Louis Langevin (CON), MLA for Dorchester, Isidore Thibaudeau (LIB), Legislative Councillor for Kennebec, and Thomas McGreevy (CON), Legislative Councillor for Stadacona, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Councillors following the abolition of the dual mandate.
January 21, 1815: Louis-Joseph Papineau (CAN), MHA for Montréal Ouest, is elected Speaker of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada for the first time. He shall occupy this office until the Patriots Rebellion of 1837-38.
January 21, 1793: Debate on the official language in the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. The Assembly decides to record its votes and proceedings in French and in English, while refusing to grant to English the superiority in the legislation.
January 22, 1884: At the outcome of a coup, disguised as an appointment as judge to the Superior Court, stirred up by the ultramontane wing of his Party, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (CON) resigns as Prime Minister of Quebec.
January 23, 1952: Adoption by the Legislative Assembly of an amendment to the Election Act forbidding for one person to be candidate in more than a riding during an election.
January 23, 1884: John J. Ross (CON), Legislative Councillor for Shawinigan, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec.
January 24, 1964: Marcel Chaput resigns as Leader of the Parti républicain du Québec. Crumbling under debts, the Party shall be dissolved a few days later.
January 24, 1958: Onésime Gagnon (UN), MLA for Matane and Minister of Finance, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly and Minister. He shall be appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Quebec on February 14, 1958.
January 24, 1907: By-election in Montréal No 5; Charles Ernest Gault (CON) is elected.
January 24, 1889: By-election in Laprairie; Odilon Goyette (NAT) is elected.
January 24, 1848: Return of the Writs of the 3^rd General Election to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The Reformists led by La Fontaine and Baldwin wins a majority of seats in Canada East (Quebec) and in Canada West (Ontario).
January 25, 1991: (January 25-27) 11^th National Convention of the Parti québécois.
January 25, 1985: Camille Laurin (PQ), MNA for Bourget and former Minister in the Lévesque Cabinet, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
January 25, 1970: The Quebec wing of the federal Ralliement créditiste, the Ralliement créditiste du Québec, obtains autonomous structures and decides to take part in the next general election.
January 25, 1957: The Alliance laurentienne, an independentist movement, is founded by Raymond Barbeau.
January 25, 1887: Following the resignation of John J. Ross (CON), Legislative Councillor for Shawinigan, as Prime Minister, Louis-Olivier Taillon (CON), MLA for Montcalm, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec. She will remain in office for only four days.
January 25, 1876: Joseph Gibb Robertson (CON), MLA for Sherbrooke and Treasurer of the Province, resigns as Minister because of a discord with the Prime Minister of Quebec, Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville (CON), about the railroad policy.
January 25, 1872: Assembly of foundation of the first version of the Parti national. Honoré Mercier is elected as Secretary of the Party.
January 26, 1994: Yvon Lafrance (LIB), MNA for Iberville, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti libéral du Québec in order to join the Action démocratique du Québec. The shall sit as independent MNA until the end of the parliamentary session.
January 26, 1938: At the opening of the session of the Legislative Assembly, the five dissident MLAs of the Union nationale (among which Chaloult, Drouin and Hamel) ask to be recognized as a parliamentary group called "Parti national", which is refused.
January 27, 1996: At the outcome of a leadership race in which he is the sole candidate, Lucien Bouchard is elected by acclamation as Leader of the Parti québécois.
January 27, 1910: By-election in Richmond; Peter Samuel George Mackenzie (LIB) is elected by acclamation.
January 28, 1991: The report of the Constitutional Committee of the Parti libéral du Québec, "Un Québec libre de ses choix", also known as the "Rapport Allaire" (Allaire Report), is released. The Committee asks for a massive decentralization of powers from Ottawa to Quebec, for lack of which Quebec would become an independent state while maintaining an economic association with the rest of Canada.
January 28, 1985: Jules Boucher (PQ), MNA for Rivière-du-Loup, announces that he leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti québécois in order to sit as independent MNA.
January 28, 1914: Joseph-Octave Mousseau (LIB), MLA for Soulanges, Louis-Philippe Bérard (LIB), Legislative Councillor for Lanaudière, and Achille Bergevin (LIB), Legislative Councillor for Repentigny, resign as Member of the Legislative Assembly and Members of the Legislative Council following charges of corruption carried by the Montreal Daily Mail on January 20, 1914 concerning the adoption of an act constituting in corporation the Montreal Fair Association of Canada.
January 28, 1876: George Irvine (LIB), MLA for Mégantic, and Henri-Gédéon Malhiot (CON), MLA for Trois-Rivières, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following their appointment as Commissioners of the Chemin de fer de Québec, Montréal, Ottawa et Occidental (Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Western Railroad). As for Gédéon Ouimet (CON), MLA for Deux-Montagnes, he risigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Superintendent of the Council of Public Instruction.
January 29, 2002: Three members of the Landry Cabinet (PQ), Jacques Brassard, Guy Chevrette and David Cliche, resign as ministers and MNAs.
January 29, 1996: As a result of the resignation of Jacques Parizeau (PQ), MNA for L'Assomption, as Prime Minister, and following his election by acclamation as Leader of the Parti québécois, Lucien Bouchard is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec.
January 29, 1902: Moodie Brock Lovell (LIB), MLA for Stanstead, dies in office due to a fever contracted in Africa.
January 29, 1887: At the outcome of a non-confidence vote of the Legislative Assembly, Louis-Olivier Taillon (CON), resigns from the office of Prime Minister of Quebec. Honoré Mercier (NAT) succeeds him the same day.
January 30, 2002: Cabinet shuffle in the Landry cabinet (PQ). Over a dozen new ministers reach the Cabinet. (more...)
January 30, 1997: The Option nationale party obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 30, 1996: The Parti pour le respect des droits et libertés individuels du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
January 30, 1994: Rita Dionne-Marsolais (PQ), Minister of Culture and Communications and MNA for Rosemont, resigns as member of the Cabinet. The Prime Minister of Quebec, Jacques Parizeau (PQ), succedes her.
January 30, 1981: Jacques Couture (PQ), MNA for Saint-Henri and former Minister in the Lévesque Cabinet, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
January 30, 1892: Joseph Lessard (CON), MLA for Maskinongé, is found guilty of electoral fraud by the Superior Court during the General Election of June 17, 1890. His election is cancelled, but the legislative Assembly of Quebec had already been dissolved for the General Election of March 8, 1892.
January 30, 1886: By-election in Lotbinière; ?‰douard-Hippolyte Laliberté (LIB) is elected.
January 30, 1883: By-election in Kamouraska; Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon (LIB) is elected.
January 31, 1985: Denis Vaugeois (PQ), MNA for Trois-Rivières and former Minister in the Lévesque Cabinet, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
January 31, 1927: Arthur Plante (CON), MLA for Beauharnois, dies in office.
January 31, 1902: By-election in Beauce; J.-Arthur Godbout (LIB) is elected.

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