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April 1, 2000: (April 1-2) 3^rd Members' Convention of the Action démocratique du Québec under the theme Objectif 2002.
April 1, 1927: The assent is given to the «Loi modifiant la Loi électorale de Québec relativement au scrutin» (An Act amending the Quebec Election Act relatively to voting) (S.Q., 1927 (17 Geo. V), c. 15), which exempts a minister who has been appointed to the Cabinet of the obligation to be re-elected in a by-election.
April 1, 1863: By-election in Laprairie; Alfred Pinsonneault (BLE) is elected.
April 1802: By-election in Effingham; Angus Shaw (BUR) is elected.
April 1802: By-election in Surrey; Alexis Caron (n.a.) is elected.
April 2, 1924: Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud (LIB), MLA for Bonaventure, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
April 2, 1890: The assent is given to the «Acte concernant l’augmentation de la représentation à l’Assemblée législative, dans les divisions électorales de Montréal-Ouest, Montréal-Centre, Montréal-Est, Québec-Est, Drummond et Arthabaska, Rimouski, Chicoutimi et Saguenay» (An Act respecting the increasing of the representation to the Legislative Assembly, in the electoral divisions of Montreal-West, Montreal-Center, Montreal-East, Quebec-East, Drummond and Arthabaska, Rimouski, Chicoutimi and Saguenay) (S.Q., 1890, sess. 1 (53 Vict.), c. 2) and the «Acte concernant l’augmentation de la représentation à l’Assemblée législative, pour la division de Wolfe et Richmond» (An Act respecting the increasing of the representation to the Legislative Assembly, for the division of Wolfe and Richmond) (S.Q., 1890, sess. 1 (53 Vict.), c. 3), which increase the number of ridings from 65 to 73.
April 2, 1884: By-election in Gaspé; Edmund J. Flynn (CON), Commissioner of Railroads in Ross' cabinet, is elected.
April 2, 1800: Charles-Baptiste Bouc (CAN), MHA for Effingham, is expelled of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada following a criminal condemnation for fraud the previous year. The Effingham seat becomes vacant.
April 3, 2008: Roch Cholette (LIB), MNA for Hull, announces his resignation as Member of the National Assembly, which will come into effect on April 9.
April 3, 2006: The Parti communiste du Québec regains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 3, 1912: The assent is given to the «Loi amendant la loi électorale de Québec» (An Act amending the Quebec Election Act) (S.Q., 1912, sess. 1 (2 Geo. V), c. 10), which abolishes the «plural vote», under which a voter was allowed to vote in two or more ridings at a time if it owned goods in both. Another act assented to the same day, the «Loi amendant la loi concernant la représentation à l’Assemblée législative» (An Act amending the act concerning the representation to the legislative Assembly) (S.Q., 1912, sess. 1 (2 Geo. V), c.9), alters the limits of the ridings while increasing their number from 74 to 81.
April 3, 1905: By-elections in Bellechasse, Kamouraska and Rimouski; Adélard Turgeon (LIB), Minister of Lands, Minings and Fisheries in Gouin's cabinet, Louis-Rodolphe Roy (LIB), Secretary and Registrar of the Province, and Auguste Tessier (LIB), Minister of Agriculture, are elected by acclamation.
April 3, 1856: The election of Sydney Robert Bellingham (CON), MLA for Argenteuil, is invalidated by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada because of acts of violence made by his partisans on this election.
April 3, 1835: By-election in Nicolet; Jean-Baptiste Hébert (PAT) is elected.
April 3, 1832: By-election in Mégantic to fill the seat recently awarded to this riding following the 1831 Census; Anthony Anderson (BUR) is elected.
April 3, 1802: Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave (CAN), MHA for Surrey, dies in office.
April 4, 2008: The Parti des immigrés du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 4, 1996: The Parti du peuple du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 4, 1967: The Legislative Assembly creates a special committee of study on the Canadian constitution and on the internal constitution of Quebec.
April 4, 1930: The assent is given to the «Loi modifiant les Statuts Refondus, 1925, relativement à la création de nouveaux districts électoraux» (An Act amending the Revised Statutes, 1925, relatively to the creation of new electoral districts) (S.Q., 1930 (20 Geo. V), c.15), which alters the limits of the ridings while increasing their number from 85 to 90.
April 4, 1902: Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais (LIB), MLA for Soulanges, dies in office.
April 4, 1890: Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (CON), Prime Minister of Quebec from 1867 to 1873, dies at the age of 69.
April 4, 1811: The British governor James Craig frees Pierre-Stanislas Bédard, Member of the House of Assembly, who was imprisoned during one year without having a lawsuit.
April 5, 1998: Monique Simard (PQ), MNA for La Prairie, announce her dismissal as Member of the National Assembly, which shall become effetive on May 1, 1998.
April 5, 1982: By-elections in Louis-Hébert and Saint-Laurent; Réjean Doyon (LIB) and Germain Leduc (LIB) are elected.
April 5, 1979: Fabien Roy (PNP), MNA for Beauce-Sud and Leader of the Parti national populaire, announces his dismissal as Member of the National Assembly and Leader of the Party after his election as Leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada.
April 5, 1921: Joseph-Eugène Rhéault (LIB), MLA for Wolfe, dies in office.
April 5, 1906: Joseph-Édouard Duhamel (LIB), MLA for L'Assomption, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as inspecteur des bureaux d'enregistrement (Inspector of the Registry Offices).
April 6, 1982: The Parti républicain du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 6, 1863: Legislative by-election in the Lanaudière division; Louis-Auguste Olivier (LIB) is elected.
April 6, 1832: By-election in Montréal (Quartier-Est); Antoine-Olivier Berthelet (BUR) is elected.
April 6, 1818: By-election in Hertford; François Blanchet (CAN) is elected.
April 7, 1989: The Parti égalité / Equality Party obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 7, 1888: Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (CON), MLA for Laval, is found guilty by the courts of electoral fraud during the General Election of October 14, 1886. His election is cancelled and the Laval seat becomes vacant.
April 7, 1873: By-election in Gaspé; Pierre-Étienne Fortin (CON), Commissioner of the Crown's Lands in Ouimet's cabinet, is elected by acclamation.
April 7, 1848: By-election in Verchères; George-Étienne Cartier (REF) is elected.
April 8, 1886: Holding of the first session of the Legislative Assembly the Green Lounge, which will become the Blue Lounge in 1977.
April 8, 1841: Return of the Writs of the 1^st General Election to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.
April 9, 2008: Roch Cholette (LIB), MNA for Hull, officially resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
April 9, 2001: By-election in Mercier; Nathalie Rochefort (LIB) is elected. (more...)
April 9, 1906: Christopher Benfield Carter (ind.), MLA for Montréal division No. 5, dies in office.
April 9, 1862: The legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada adopts a resolution condemning any offer of money (or of any other advantage) to a MLA with the aim of facilitating the adoption of a measure by the Parliament. This tradition will be resumed at the beginning of each parliamentary session.
April 10, 2006: By-election in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques; Martin Lemay (PQ) is elected. (more...).
April 10, 1999: The Directeur général des élections, Jacques Girard, dies in office.
April 10, 1978: The Parti communiste du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 10, 1919: Referendum on the sale of alcoholic drinks. To the question «Êtes-vous d'opinion que la vente des bières, cidres et vins légers, tels que définis par la loi, devrait être permise?» (Do you agree that the sale of beers, ciders and light wines, as defined by the law, should be allowed?), the results are as follows:
- Yes: 78,62 %;
- No: 21,38 %.
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April 10, 1905: By-election in Montréal division No. 2; J. Lomer Gouin (LIB), who had been sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec on March 23, 1905, is elected.
April 10, 1818: Louis Gugy (BUR), MHA for Saint-Maurice, resigns as Member of the House of Assembly following his appointment as Legislative Councillor.
April 11, 1820: Return of the Writs of the 10^th general election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. The Parti canadien wins a majority of seats in the House.
April 11, 1864: By-elections in Sherbrooke, Montréal Ouest, Montréal Est and Dorchester; Alexander Tilloch Galt (CON), Minister of Finance in the Taché-Macdonald Cabinet, Thomas D'Arcy McGee (CON), Minister of Agriculture, George-Étienne Cartier (CON), Attorney General of Lower Canada, and Hector-Louis Langevin (CON), Sollicitor General of Lower Canada, are elected.
April 11, 1807: By-election in Trois-Rivières; Ezekiel Hart (BUR) is elected.
April 12, 1996: Monique Simard (PQ), MNA for La Prairie, announces that she leaves the parliamentary group of the Parti québécois in order to sit as independent MNA.
April 12, 1965: In a speech delivered to the Montreal Consular Corps, the Minister of Education, Paul Gérin-Lajoie (LIB), exposes the will of the government of Quebec to exert itself on the international scene the constitutional powers which are reserved to provinces, under the terms of the principle of the «external prolongation of internal competences». This declaration will become known as the «Gérin-Lajoie doctrine». (more...)
April 12, 1832: The assent is given the «Acte pour déclarer que les personnes qui professent le judaïsme ont le bénéfice de tous les droits et privilèges des autres sujets de Sa Majesté en cette province» (An Act to declare that the persons who profess Judaism have the profit of all the rights and the privileges of the other subjects of Her Majesty in this province), adopted by the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. For the first time in the Commonwealth, such a law is adopted.
April 12, 1863: Robert Unwin Harwood (CON), Legislative Councillor for Rigaud, dies in office.
April 13, 1981: 32^th General Election to the National Assembly of Quebec:
- Parti québécois (René Lévesque) : 81 seats;
- Parti libéral du Québec (Claude Ryan) : 41 seats.
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April 13, 1938: Arthur Larouche (UN), MLA for Chicoutimi, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly.
April 13, 1922: Amédée Monet (LIB), MLA for Napierville, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
April 13, 1916: Jules Allard (LIB), MLA for Drummond and Minister of Lands and Forests, and Joseph-Léonide Perron (LIB), MLA for Verchères, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following their appointment as Legislative Councillors. The same day, Cyrille-Fraser Delâge, MLA for Québec and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as surintendant de l'Instruction publique (Superintendent of Public Education).
April 13, 1820: Pierre Bruneau (CAN), MHA for Kent, dies in office.
April 14, 2003: 37^th General Election to the National Assembly of Quebec:
- Parti libéral du Québec (Jean J. Charest) : 76 seats;
- Parti québécois (Bernard Landry) : 45 seats;
- Action démocratique du Québec (Mario Dumont) : 4 seats.
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April 14, 1864: By-election in Kamouraska; Jean-Charles Chapais (CON), Commissioner of Public Works in the Taché-Macdonald Cabinet, is elected.
April 14, 1857: By-election in the City of Québec; George Okill Stuart (TOR) is elected.
April 14, 1848: By-election in Terrebonne; Louis-Michel Viger (PAT), Reciever General in the La Fontaine-Baldwin Cabinet, is elected.
April 14, 1833: Joseph-Isidore Bédard (n.a.), MHA for Saguenay, dies in office.
April 15, 2002: By-elections in Anjou, Saguenay and Viger; Lise Thériault (LIB), François Corriveau (ADQ) and Anna Mancuso (LIB) are elected. (more...)
April 15, 1978: At the outcome of a Leadership Convention, Claude Ryan is elected as Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec.
April 15, 1932: Victor Marchand (LIB), MLA for Jacques-Cartier, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Legislative Councillor.
April 16, 1874: (April 16-17) By-elections in Québec Centre and Québec Est; Rémi-Fernand Rinfret dit Malouin (CON) and Pierre-Vincent Valin (CON) are elected.
April 16, 1860: The election of the three MLAs for the City of Québec, Charles Joseph Alleyn (BLE), Hippolyte Dubord (BLE) and George-Honoré Simard (BLE), is invalidated by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for intimidation, violence, riots, recording of persons having no right of vote or persons having voted several times. The three Québec seats become vacant.
April 16, 1829: By-election in Gaspé; Robert Christie (BUR), who had been expelled of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada on February 14, 1829, is elected.
April 17, 1982: The queen proclaims the new Canadian constitution in Ottawa, which was accepted by the federal government and all the provinces, except Quebec.
April 17, 1849: By-election in Sherbrooke; Alexander Tilloch Galt (ind.) is elected.
April 17, 1844: By-election in the City of Montréal; Lewis Thomas Drummond (PAT) is elected.
April 17, 1832: By-election in Gaspé; Robert Christie (BUR), who had been expelled of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada on November 15, 1831, is elected.
April 18, 1876: By-elections in Mégantic and Trois-Rivières; Andrew Kennedy (CON) and H.-R.-Arthur Turcotte (CON-I) are elected.
April 18, 1861: The election of Alexandre-Édouard Kierskowski (ROU), Legislative Councillor for Montarville, is invalidated by the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for inadmissibility to the office of Legislative Councillor. The Montarville seat becomes vacant.
April 18, 1842: By-election in Lac des deux Montagnes; Charles John Forbes (TOR) is elected.
April 19, 2000: Marcel Blanchet is designated as directeur général des élections (Chief Election Officer) by the National Assemby of Quebec for a 7 years mandate.
April 19, 1995: Publication of the report of the Commission nationale sur l'avenir du Québec (National Committee on the future of Quebec), fruit of the consultation with more than 50 000 Quebecers. All the political parties (ADQ, BQ, PQ) participate in the works of commissions on the future of Quebec, except the Parti libéral du Québec.
April 19, 1968: (April 19-21) Policy Convention of the Mouvement souveraineté-association (Movement Sovereignty-Association: MSA), of René Lévesque. The 7 300 members notably decide to create a new political party which would gather the independentist forces.
April 19, 1883: Fire of the Hôtel du Parlement (Hotel of the Parliament), then situated in the côte de la Montagne.
April 20, 1979: The Parti de la liberté de choix / Freedom of Choice Party obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 20, 1892: Honoré Mercier (père) (LIB), MLA for Bonaventure, has to appear before the courts for accusations of payoffs. He won't sit in the House until February 1893.
April 21, 1810: Return of the Writs of the 7^th General Election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. At the outcome of these early elections, the Parti canadien (Canadian Party) holds the majority in the House.
April 22, 1994: The Parti de la loi naturelle du Québec obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 23, 1997: Denis Perron (PQ), MNA for Duplessis, dies in office.
April 23, 1984: Serge Champagne (LIB), MNA for Saint-Jacques, dies in a car accident.
April 23, 1915: John C. Kaine (LIB), MLA for Québec-Ouest and Minister without Portfolio, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Legislative Councillor.
April 23, 1905: Gédéon Ouimet (CON), Prime Minister of Quebec in 1873 and 1874, dies at the age of 81.
April 23, 1860: The assent is given to the «Acte pour amender l'Acte concernant la représentation du peuple dans l'Assemblée législative» (S.P.C., 1860 (23 Vict.), c. 1) (An Act to amend the Act concerning the representation of the people in the Legislative assembly). The electoral map established by this law will remain into force until 1890. Besides, the first past the post electoral electoral system is definitively established in Quebec.
April 24, 1929: Élisée Thériault (LIB), MLA for L'Islet, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Legislative Councillor.
April 24, 1890: Edmond Lareau (LIB), MLA for Rouville, dies in office.
April 24, 1876: By-election in Huntingdon; Alexander Cameron (LIB) is elected by acclamation.
April 25, 1978: Bryce Mackasey (LIB), MNA for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, resigns as Member of the National Assembly.
April 25, 1940: The assent is given to the «Loi accordant aux femmes le droit de vote et d'éligibilité» (An Act granting to women the right to vote and to be eligible as candidates) (S.Q., 1940 (4 Geo. VI), c. 7), having been adopted by both houses of the Parliament of Quebec.
April 25, 1923: Louis-Olivier Taillon (CON), Prime Minister of Quebec in 1887 and from 1892 to 1896, dies at the age of 82.
April 25, 1922: Joseph-Henri Lemay (LIB), MLA for Sherbrooke, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
April 25, 1914: John Hall Kelly (LIB), MLA for Bonaventure, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his nearest appointment as Legislative Councillor.
April 25, 1905: The parliamentary group of the Parti conservateur to the Legislative Assembly elects Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (CON), MLA for Laval, as Leader of the Party and Leader of the Official Opposition.
April 25, 1901: Émery Lalonde (LIB), MLA for Vaudreuil, and William John Watts (LIB), MLA for Drummond, resign as Members of the Legislative Assembly following their appointment as registrators.
April 25, 1849: Fire of the Parliament of the Province of Canada in Montreal, caused by English-speaking rioters protesting against the adoption of an act of compensation of the victims of the Revolt of the Patriots of 1837-38 in Lower Canada.
April 25, 1816: Issuing of the Writs of the 9^th General Election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. At the outcome of these elections, the Parti canadien (Canadian Party) holds the majority in the House.
April 26, 1892: Honoré Mercier (père) (LIB), MLA for Bonaventure, not being able to occupy his seat to the Legislative Assembly during his lawsuit on the Scandale de la Baie des Chaleurs (Chaleurs Bay Scandal), Félix-Gabriel Marchand, MLA for St. Jean, becomes Leader of the Parti libéral.
April 26, 1855: By-election in Chicoutimi et Tadoussac; David Edward Price (CON) is elected.
April 26, 1848: By-election in Trois-Rivières; Antoine Polette (PAT) is elected.
April 26, 1848: Thomas Cushing Aylwin (PAT), MLA for the City of Québec and Sollicitor General of Lower Canada, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as Judge of the Court of the Queen's bench for the Québec district.
April 27, 2004: Marc Bellemare (LIB), MNA for Vanier, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, resigns as minister. He will resign as Member of the National Assembly the following day.
April 27, 1960: Lionel-Alfred Ross (LIB-I), MLA for Montréal-Verdun, resigns as Member of the Legislative Assembly following his appointment as judge.
April 27, 1942: Federal referendum on the conscription: 71,6 % of the Quebecers refuse to dismiss the federal government of its commitment not to resort to the conscription, whereas 27,1 accept. In Canada as a whole, on the contrary, 64,2 % of the voters vote «Yes» and 35,8 % vote «No».
April 28, 1999: The Minister of Revenue, Rita Dionne-Marsolais (PQ), resigns from the office of minister after the Commission d'accès à l'information (Commission of Access to Information) judged that the Department of Revenue has enfreint its own law in the file of the alimony.
April 28, 1939: The assent is given the «Loi relative aux districts électoraux de la province» (An Act respecting the electoral districts of the province) (S.Q., 1939 (3 Geo. VI), c.7), which alters the demarcations of the ridings and lowers their number from 90 to 86.
April 28, 1888: By-elections in Hochelaga, Maskinongé and Missisquoi; Charles Laplante dit Champagne (LIB), Joseph-Hormidas Legris (NAT) and Elijah Edmund Spencer (CON) are elected.
April 29, 2003: Due to the victory of his party during the General Election of April 14, 2003, Jean J. Charest (LIB) is sworn in as Prime Minister of Quebec.
April 29, 1970: 29^th General Election to the National Assembly of Quebec:
- Parti libéral du Québec (Robert Bourassa): 72 seats;
- Union nationale (Jean-Jacques Bertrand): 17 seats;
- Ralliement créditiste (Camil Samson): 12 seats;
- Parti québécois (René Lévesque): 7 seats.
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April 29, 1969: Yves Gabias (UN), Minister of Financal Institutions, Companies and Co-operatives and MNA for Trois-Rivières, resigns as Minister and Member of the National Assembly following his appointment as judge.
April 29, 1953: Bona Dussault (UN), Minister of Municipal Affairs and MLA for Portneuf, dies in office.
April 29, 1911: Charles-Alphonse-Pantaléon Pelletier, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, dies in office.
April 29, 1872: By-election in Rimouski; Alexandre Chauveau (CON) is elected.
April 30, 1998: At the outcome of a Leadership Convention, Jean J. Charest is elected by acclamation as Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec.
April 30, 1990: The Coalition arc-en ciel obtains officially the status of authorized political party.
April 30, 1987: Gathered in the Meech Lake, federal and provincial first ministers conclude an agreement of principle to reinstate Quebec within the Canadian constitution.
April 30, 1981: Inauguration of the new Cabinet of René Lévesque (PQ) following the general election of April 13, 1981.
April 30, 1979: By-elections in Argenteuil and Jean-Talon; Claude Ryan (LIB), Leader of the Parti libéral du Québec, and Jean-Claude Rivest (LIB) are elected.
April 30, 1879: Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel (CON), MLA for Chambly, is found guilty by the courts of electoral fraud during the General Election of May 1, 1878. His election is cancelled and the Chambly seat becomes vacant.
April 30, 1860: The election of Jean-Baptiste Guévremont (LIB), Legislative Councillor for Sorel, is invalidated by the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada for inadmissibility to the office of Legislative Councillor. The Sorel seat becomes vacant.
April 30, 1857: Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (BLE), MLA for Montmorency and Commissioner of the Crown Lands, resigns as Minister because of his opposition to the proposition of the government to grant a new grant to the Grand Trunk Railroad.
April 30, 1808: Issuing of the Writs of the 5^th General Election to the House of Assembly of Lower Canada.
April 30, 1801: By-election in Effingham; Charles-Baptiste Bouc (CAN) is elected.

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