Gabriel Roberge Explained

Gabriel Roberge
Birth Date:30 March 1918
Birth Place:Saint-Ferdinand d'Halifax, Quebec, Canada
Death Place:Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Spouse:Denyse Lemay[1]
Riding:Mégantic
Term Start:March 1958
Term End:June 1962
Profession:lawyer
Party:Liberal

Gabriel Roberge (30 March 1918 – 5 July 2006) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer by career.

Roberge was born in Saint-Ferdinand d'Halifax, Quebec. He graduated twice from Université Laval, first in 1938 with a Bachelor of Arts then in 1941 with a Bachelor of Law.[2] He served in the military with Le Régiment de la Chaudière reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant in 1941 and left the forces in 1946 as a Captain.

He was first elected at the Mégantic riding in the 1958 general election. After serving one term, the 24th Parliament, he was defeated in the 1962 election by Raymond Langlois of the Social Credit Party. He became a Quebec Superior Court judge in October 1963.

Roberge also helped establish the Kiwanis club in Thetford Mines and was a knight of the Order of Saint Lazarus since 1974. He died on 5 July 2006 in Quebec City.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Honorable Gabriel Roberge 1918–2006 . 6 June 2009 . French . Lépine Cloutier (funeral home) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713201227/http://www.lepinecloutier.com/site.php?langID=2&section=obit_details&obituaryID=862 . 13 July 2011 .
  2. Web site: Ambassadeurs / L'honorable Gabriel Roberge . French . 6 June 2009 . City of Thetford Mines . https://web.archive.org/web/20161127111227/http://www.ville.thetfordmines.qc.ca/info.php?noPage=132 . 27 November 2016 . dead .