George Garneau Explained

Sir Jean-Georges Garneau
Birth Date:19 November 1864
Death Date:5 February 1944
Death Place:Quebec City, Canada East
Order:25th Mayor of Quebec City
Term Start:1 March 1906
Term End:1 March 1910
Predecessor:Georges Tanguay
Successor:Olivier-Napoléon Drouin
Profession:railroad engineer, professor

Sir Jean-Georges Garneau (19 November 1864 – 5 February 1944)[1] was a Canadian politician, the mayor of Quebec City from 1906 to 1910.

Sir Georges Garneau was a railroad engineer involved in the construction of track between Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. In 1904, he became an analytical chemistry professor at Université Laval, before becoming Quebec City's mayor in 1906. From 1908 to 1939, he served as the first president of the National Battlefields Commission, which manages the Plains of Abraham site in Quebec City.[2]

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  1. Web site: Sir George Garneau . 2008-09-08 . March 2008 . Monique . Duval . La société historique de Québec . fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706201620/http://www.societehistoriquedequebec.qc.ca/mars08.htm . 6 July 2011 .
  2. Web site: "History of the park" at National Battlefields Commission . 9 September 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080606014640/http://www.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/_en/histoire.php . 6 June 2008 . dead .