Alphonse Desjardins Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
There were two men, contemporaries, from Quebec named Alphonse Desjardins:
Gabriel-Alphonse Desjardins (November 5 1854 - October 30 1920) was born in Lévis, Quebec. He was a journalist at L'écho and Le Canadien until 1879.
He was publisher of Débats de la législature du Québec from 1879 to 1890, and French-language parliamentary stenographer at the House of Commons from 1892 to 1917.
In 1897 he became preoccupied with the problem of usury and undertook three years of careful research and correspondence with the founders of cooperative savings and credit movements in Europe. On December 6, 1900 he and his wife Dorimène Roy Desjardins co-founded the first Caisse d'épargne Desjardins in Lévis and opened for business the following month. Later renamed Caisses populaires Desjardins (and today Mouvement Desjardins), they were a forerunner of North American credit unions.
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Alphonse Desjardins (May 6 1841 - June 4 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Quebec and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.
He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. Represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years before being named a senator. Became mayor of Montreal in 1893.
See also: List of Montreal mayors
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