| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Gilles Lamontagne | |
| Office: | Lieutenant Governor of Quebec |
| Order: | 24th |
| Governor General: | Edward Schreyer Jeanne Sauvé Ray Hnatyshyn |
| Premier: | René Lévesque Pierre-Marc Johnson Robert Bourassa |
| Successor: | Martial Asselin |
| Term Start: | March 28, 1984 |
| Term End: | August 9, 1990 |
| Office1: | Minister of National Defence |
| Primeminister1: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start1: | March 3, 1980 |
| Term End1: | August 11, 1983 |
| Predecessor1: | Allan McKinnon |
| Successor1: | Jean–Jacques Blais |
| Office2: | Minister of Veterans Affairs |
| Primeminister2: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start2: | October 1, 1980 |
| Term End2: | September 21, 1981 |
| Predecessor2: | Daniel J. MacDonald |
| Successor2: | W. Bennett Campbell |
| Termlabel2: | Acting |
| Office3: | Postmaster General of Canada |
| Primeminister3: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Term Start3: | February 2, 1978 |
| Term End3: | June 3, 1979 |
| Predecessor3: | Jean-Jacques Blais |
| Successor3: | John Allen Fraser |
| Office4: | Minister without portfolio |
| Term Start4: | January 19, 1978 |
| Term End4: | February 1, 1978 |
| Primeminister4: | Pierre Trudeau |
| Riding5: | Langelier |
| Parliament5: | Canadian |
| Successor5: | Michel Côté |
| Term Start5: | May 24, 1977 |
| Term End5: | March 26, 1984 |
| Office6: | Mayor of Quebec City |
| Successor6: | Jean Pelletier |
| Term Start6: | December 1, 1965 |
| Term End6: | December 1, 1977 |
| Birth Name: | Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne |
| Birth Date: | 17 April 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
| Death Place: | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Party: | Liberal |
| Occupation: | Merchant |
| Allegiance: | Canada |
| Branch: | Royal Canadian Air Force |
| Serviceyears: | 1941-1945 |
| Rank: | Flight Lieutenant / Bomber Pilot |
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Joseph-Georges-Gilles-Claude Lamontagne (in French ʒozɛf ʒɔʁʒ ʒil klod lamɔ̃taɲ/; April 17, 1919 – June 14, 2016) was a Canadian politician and the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
He was born in Montreal. During World War II, Lamontagne served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force with No 425 Squadron[1] and was later shot down over the Netherlands in 1943, being detained as a prisoner of war until May 1945. He ended his air force service with the rank of flight lieutenant. In 1946, he settled in Quebec City and entered the importing business. He became a member of the Rotary Club of Quebec City with his partner and neighbour Jean Poliquin.
He entered politics and was elected mayor of Quebec City in 1965. He held that post until he won a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Party candidate in a 1977 by-election. In 1978, he entered the Cabinet of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, serving briefly as a Minister without Portfolio before becoming Postmaster General. He served in that position until the defeat of the government in the 1979 election. When the Liberals returned to power in the 1980 election, Lamontagne returned to Cabinet as Minister of National Defence.
In 1984, he left politics to accept the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, and served as the province's viceroy until his retirement in 1990.
Lamontagne married Mary Schaefer in 1949 and had four children and five grandchildren. Schaefer died in 2006. Lamontagne died in 2016 at the age of 97.[2] In 1990, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and in 2005, a member of l'Ordre des Grands Québécois. He was an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada club student # H15200.
| Notes: | The arms of Gilles Lamontagne consist of: |
| Crest: | Above a helm on a wreath Argent and Azure a demi Snowy Owl (Nyctea Scandiaca) displayed of the first gorged with a collar of the second charged with a mullet Argent, each wing charged with two fleurs de lys Azure mantled Azure doubled Argent. |
| Escutcheon: | Azure on a mount between two swords paleways, hilts in base a double-towered fortress gate all Argent, masoned of the first, in chief a coronet of six fleurs de lys, three visible, also Argent. |
| Supporters: | Dexter a Moose (Alces alces) Argent gorged with a collar of maple leaves Gules, sinister a Moose of the first gorged with a collar of fleurs de lys Azure, roses Gules, thistles and shamrocks Vert alternately. |
| Motto: | Deo Favente Vincit Vim Virtus |
There is a Gilles Lamonagne fonds at Library and Archives Canada[3] and the Quebec City archives.