Godfroy Langlois

Godfroy Langlois
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal division no. 3
In office 1904–1912
Preceded by	Henri-Benjamin Rainville
Succeeded by	District was abolished in 1912
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Montréal–Saint-Louis
In office 1912–1916
Preceded by	District was created in 1912
Succeeded by	Peter Bercovitch
Personal details
Born	(1866-12-26)26 December 1866 Sainte-Scholastique (Mirabel), Canada East
Died	6 April 1928(1928-04-06) (aged 61) Brussels, Belgium
Political party	Liberal

Godfroy Langlois (26 December 1866 – 6 April 1928) was a politician, a journalist and a lawyer in Quebec. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for the Liberal Party of Quebec.

Biography

A native of Sainte-Scholastique (today part of Mirabel), he studied at the Séminaire de Sainte-Thérèse, the College of St. Laurent and Laval University where he studied law. Early on, he joined the Quebec Bar in 1886, but then turned to journalism. In 1890 he began publishing The Echo of Two Mountains. Anticlerical, the newspaper got into trouble and had to change its name in 1892 to Freedom. He joined the editorial staff of La Patrie, where he was editor from 1897 to 1903. He chaired the National Club of Montreal, he was elected Liberal MP in Montréal division no. 3 in 1904 and 1908, and in Montreal-Saint-Louis in 1912. He worked for the legalization of trade unions and various other liberal measures. In 1914, he became the official representative of the Quebec government in Brussels, capital of Belgium. He kept that post until his death on April 6, 1928.

References

• Patrice Dutil, Devil's Advocate: Godfroy Langlois and the Politics of Liberal Progressivism in Laurier's Quebec (Montreal, 1994)