Albéric-Archie Mondou was a notary

Civil law notary

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 and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Yamaska

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 in 1897 and Yamaska

Yamaska (electoral district)

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1911 to 1917 as a Conservative

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He was born in Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec

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, the son of Eusèbe Mondou and Marie-Georgina Desmarais, and was educated at the Séminaire de Nicolet and the Université Laval

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. He qualified to practise as a notary in 1894 and set up practice in Montreal

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. In 1895, he married Augustine Cardin. Mondou was a director of the Strathcona Fire Insurance Company and vice-president and manager of the Quebec and Western Canada Land Syndicate Ltd. He was manager of the Banque Provinciale at Pierreville

Pierreville, Quebec

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 from 1902 to 1911. Mondou defeated Victor Gladu

Victor Gladu

Victor Gladu was a notary and political figure in Quebec. He represented Yamaska in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1886 to 1897 as a Liberal....

in 1897 for a seat in the Quebec assembly; that election was overturned and he lost two subsequent by-elections held later that year. He ran unsuccessfully for a federal seat in 1900, in 1921 and 1945. Mondou died in Montreal at the age of 79.