Pierre-Alexis Tremblay Explained

Pierre-Alexis Tremblay
Constituency Mp:Chicoutimi—Saguenay
Parliament:Canadian
Successor:William Evan Price
Term Start:1867
Term End:1872
Constituency Mp2:Charlevoix
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Simon-Xavier Cimon
Successor2:Hector-Louis Langevin
Term Start2:1872
Term End2:1876
Predecessor3:Hector-Louis Langevin
Successor3:Joseph-Stanislas Perrault
Term Start3:1878
Term End3:1879
Office4:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Chicoutimi-Saguenay
Successor4:Michel Guillaume Baby
Term Start4:1867
Term End4:1874
Office5:Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Chicoutimi—Saguenay
Predecessor5:David Edward Price
Successor5:None
Term Start5:1863
Term End5:1867
Birth Date:27 December 1827
Birth Place:La Malbaie, Lower Canada
Death Place:Quebec City, Quebec
Party:Liberal

Pierre-Alexis "Pitre" Tremblay (December 27, 1827  - January 4, 1879) was a surveyor and Quebec political figure. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1867 to 1875 and 1878 to 1879.

He was born in La Malbaie, Lower Canada, in 1827 and studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec. Near the end of 1853, he began carrying out surveys in the Saguenay region. As a journalist, he contributed to a number of newspapers of the time: Le Canadien, La Nation, Le National, L’Événement and L’Éclaireur. He was elected to Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Chicoutimi—Saguenay in an 1865 by-election.

In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Chicoutimi-Saguenay; in the same year he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the same riding; such dual mandates were legal at the time. He was re-elected provincially in 1871 in the same seat, and in 1872 he was elected in Charlevoix federally. He resigned from the Quebec seat in 1874 when holding seats in both legislatures became illegal. His election in Charlevoix was invalidated in August 1875. He was defeated in a by-election held in 1876 but was able to overturn this result in the Supreme Court of Canada in 1877 by demonstrating that the Quebec clergy had exerted undue influence against him during the election. He represented Charlevoix federally from 1878 until his death in Quebec City in 1879.

From 1862 to 1868, he was involved with Félicité Angers, better known as the author Laure Conan, but he married Mary Ellen Connoly in 1870.