List of mayors of Trois-Rivières

The mayor is the highest elected official in Trois-Rivières, in the Mauricie region of Quebec. Since its incorporation in 1845, the city has had thirty-six mayors.

The mayor presides over the Trois-Rivières City Council.

List

This is a list of mayors of the city of Trois-Rivières.

#	Mayor	Taking Office	Leaving
1	Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin [1]	1845	1846
2	Antoine Polette [2]	1846	1853
3	John McDougall [3]	1854	1855
4	J.-B. Lajoie	1855	1857
5	Joseph-Édouard Turcotte [4]	1857	1863
6	Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville [5]	1863	1865
7	Sévère Dumoulin [6]	1865	1869
8	Joseph-Moïse Désilet	1869	1872
9	Joseph-Napoléon Bureau	1872	1873
10	Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand [7]	1873	1876
11	Arthur Turcotte [8]	1876	1877
9	Joseph-Napoléon Bureau	1877	1879
7	Sévère Dumoulin	1879	1885
12	Henri-Gédéon Malhiot [9]	1885	1888
13	J.-E. Hétu	1888	1889
10	Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand	1889	1894
14	Philippe-Elisée Panneton [10]	1894	1896
15	Richard-Stanislas Cooke [11]	1896	1898
16	Arthur Olivier [12]	1898	1900
17	Louis-Docithé Paquin	1900	1902
18	N.-L. Denoncourt	1902	1904
19	Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis [13]	1904	1905
17	Louis-Docithé Paquin	1905	1905
20	J.-F. Bellefeuille	1905	1906
21	François-Siméon Tourigny	1906	1908
23	Louis-Philippe Normand [14]	1908	1913
24	Joseph-Adolphe Tessier [15]	1913	1921
23	Louis-Philippe Normand	1921	1923
25	Arthur Bettez [16]	1923	1931
26	J.-H. Robichon	1931	1937
27	Atchez Pitt	1937	1941
28	Arthur Rousseau	1941	1949
29	Joseph-Alfred Mongrain [17]	1949	1953
30	Léo Leblanc	1953	1955
31	Laurent Paradis	1955	1960
29	Joseph-Alfred Mongrain	1960	1963
32	Gérard Dufresne [18]	1963	1966
33	René Matteau	1966	1970
34	Gilles Beaudoin	1970	1990
35	Guy Leblanc [19]	1990	2001
36	Yves Lévesque	2002	Current

Officially, elections to the Trois-Rivières Council are on a non-partisan basis.

Footnotes

1. Dumoulin was the Parti Canadien Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1827 to 1832.
2. Polette was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1848 to 1858.
3. McDougall was the Tory Member of the legislature for the district Drummond from 1851 to 1854.
4. J.-É. Turcotte was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Saint-Maurice from 1841 to 1844, for Trois-Rivières from 1845 to 1848, for Saint-Maurice from 1851 to 1854, for Champlain from 1858 to 1861 and again for Trois-Rivières from 1861 until his death in 1864.
5. Boucher was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1865 to 1867.
6. Dumoulin was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1868 to 1869.
7. T.-E. Normand was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1890 to 1900.
8. Arthur Turcotte was the Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1876 to 1881 and from 1884 to 1890. He was Independent Conservative, then switched to Honoré Mercier’s Parti National.
9. Mailhot was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1871 to 1876.
10. Panneton ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1900 and in 1908. Each time he lost.
11. Cooke was the Liberal Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1900 to 1904.
12. Olivier ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against incumbent MLA Arthur Turcotte in 1886 and in 1888. Each time he lost.
13. Nérée Duplessis was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Saint-Maurice from 1886 to 1900. He also ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1904, but lost.
14. L.-P. Normand ran as the Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1911 and in 1921. Each time he lost.
15. Tessier was the Liberal Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1904 to 1921.
16. Bettez was the Liberal Member of Parliament for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice from 1925 to 1931.
17. Mongrain ran as the Liberal candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against Premier and incumbent MLA Maurice Duplessis in 1952. He lost. He also ran in the district of Champlain in the 1960 provincial election. He was defeated by incumbent Maurice Bellemare.
18. The name of the Mayor of Shawinigan during the same period was also Gérard Dufresne.
19. Leblanc ran as the Liberal candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against Cabinet Member and incumbent MNA Guy Julien in 1998. He lost.

References

• Cournoyer, Jean. La Mémoire du Québec (2001 edition). Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké (Montreal). ISBN 2-7604-0672-5.