Joseph-Octave Villeneuve Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve
Order:23rd
Office:Mayor of Montreal
Term Start:1894
Term End:1896
Predecessor:Alphonse Desjardins (politician)
Successor:Richard Wilson-Smith
Office2:Senator for De Salaberry, Quebec
Term Start2:1896
Term End2:1901
Predecessor2:Joseph Tassé
Successor2:Frédéric Liguori Béique
Appointed2:Mackenzie Bowell
Office3:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Hochelaga
Predecessor3:Louis Beaubien
Successor3:Charles Champagne
Term Start3:1886
Term End3:1887
Predecessor4:Charles Champagne
Successor4:Daniel-Jérémie Décarie
Term Start4:1890
Term End4:1896
Birth Date:1836 3, df=yes
Birth Place:Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Profession:businessman

Joseph-Octave Villeneuve (4 March 1836  - 27 June 1901) was a Canadian businessman, provincial politician, and senator.

Entering business in Montreal, Villeneuve founded a firm of wholesale grocers and spirits merchants. As a businessman and local politician he acquired large commercial interests in Canada.[1]

He was mayor of Saint-Jean-Baptiste from 1866 to 1886 and warden of Hochelaga county from 1866 to 1880. From 1894 to 1896, he was the Mayor of Montreal. He was the Legislative Assembly of Quebec member for Hochelaga from 1886 to 1888 and from 1890 to 1896.

In 1896, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate representing the senatorial division of De Salaberry, Quebec. A Conservative, he served until his death in 1901.

Notes and References

  1. Obituary. 1 July 1901 . 11 . 36495.