Joseph-Edmond Robert was a farmer and political figure in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. He represented Rouville

Rouville (provincial electoral district)

Rouville was a provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Montérégie region south of Montreal, it was formed in 1867...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Legislative Assembly of Quebec

The Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the name of the lower house of Quebec's legislature until 1968, when it was renamed the National Assembly of Quebec. At the same time, the upper house of the legislature, the Legislative Council, was abolished...

 from 1908 to 1922 as a Liberal member.

He was born in Marieville

Marieville, Quebec

Marieville is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located within the Rouville Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region about 30 kilometers east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 7,904.-History:...

, Canada East

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, the son of Victor Robert

Victor Robert

Victor Robert was a farmer, carpenter and political figure in Quebec. He represented Rouville in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to 1878 as a Liberal. His name also appears as Victor Robert, dit Lafontaine....

 and Euphrasie Désautels. He was educated at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir in Marieville. Robert was co-registrar for Rouville County and a director of the Colonization Society for Saint-Jean County

Saint-Jean County, Quebec

Saint-Jean County is an historical county in Quebec and is on the west bank of the Richelieu River about 40 km southeast of Montreal.The county was organized in 1854 from the counties of Huntingdon and Chambly....

. In 1886, he married Marie-Rose Martel. He was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1908 by-election held after Alfred Girard

Alfred Girard

Alfred Girard was a Canadian lawyer and politician.Born in Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, Quebec, the son of Pierre Girard and Marie Pelletier, Girard began his education at Marieville College, and afterwards passed a course in Sherbrooke College, finally graduating in law at McGill College in 1882,...

 was named a judge. Robert resigned his seat in 1922 after being named colonization and immigration agent for Quebec. He later ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1935. He died in Magog

Magog, Quebec

Magog is a city in southeastern Quebec, Canada, about east of Montreal at the confluence of Lake Memphremagog--after which the city was named—with the Rivière aux Cerises and the Magog River...

at the age of 84 and was buried in Marieville.