Lucien Mongrain (June 24, 1932 – December 9, 2022)[1] was a Canadian politician and the Mayor of Trois-Rives, Mauricie in Canada.
Background
editHe was born in Shawinigan, Mauricie on June 24, 1932. He worked as a mechanic and in forestry.[2]
Political career
editHe ran for election as Mayor of Trois-Rives, then known as Boucher, in 1978, but lost against Elphège Desrosiers.
Mongrain ran again in 1981 and defeated the incumbent.
He was re-elected in 1985 and won every subsequent election,[3] running unopposed in 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013.[4]
In 2017, he won re-election with 247 votes (62.22%) against Joël Francoeur (77 votes) and Claude Doucet (73 votes).[5]
In 2021, he retired after forty years as mayor.[6]
During Mongrain's tenure (in 2007), a fire department that services Trois-Rives, as well as Grandes-Piles and Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac was established.[7] Lucien Mongrain ran a debt-free administration[8] that oversaw an increase in property value from $3.6 million in 1978 to $119 million in 2012 and in budget from $57,236 to $1,487,971, as well as infrastructure investments.[9]
Footnotes
edit- ^ Trois-Rives en deuil de son ancien maire (in French)
- ^ Francine Juneau & Hélène Beaudry Bellemare, Une municipalité, deux maires, Trois-Rives, Les 25 ans de Trois-Rives
- ^ Élus sans opposition - Mauricie, Radio-Canada, November 6, 2005
- ^ Elyse Allard, Sur la route des élections : arrêt à Trois-Rives, Radio-Canada, October 5, 2017
- ^ Élections 2017: les résultats dans Mékinac, L'Hebdo du St-Maurice, November 6, 2017
- ^ Louis Cloutier, Le doyen des maires prend sa retraite, Le Journal de Montréal, July 20, 2021
- ^ "«Éteindre des feux à la chaudière, c'est fini!» – Lucien Mongrain, Hugo Lemay, L'Hebdo du St-Maurice, August 28, 2007". Archived from the original on August 31, 2007. Retrieved September 2, 2007.
- ^ Amélie St-Yves, Un 10e mandat pour un maire de 85 ans, Le Journal de Montréal, November 10, 2017
- ^ Louise Plante, 30 ans de complicité municipale, Le Nouvelliste, February 20, 2012