Yvon Lamarre (2 February 1935 – 2 June 2020) was a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.[1]
Lamarre was born and brought up in the Cote St. Paul district of Montreal.[2] He graduated from the École des Hautes Études commerciales at the Université de Montréal in 1957.[2] He worked in the family business "Lamarre Frères Inc".[2]
He was elected to Montreal's City Council in 1966 as a Civic candidate against independent incumbent Bruno Lépine in the district of Saint-Henri.[2] [3] He was appointed to the City Council's executive committee in 1970, becoming the vice-chairman in 1974 and the chairman in 1978.[2]
Lamarre served as Chairman of Montreal's Executive Committee from 1978 to 1986.[4] In 1982 he was considered as a possibility to replace Jean Drapeau when the mayor had a mild stroke.[5] Lamarre was re-elected to the Council in 1982 in the district of Saint-Paul, but did not run for re-election in 1986.[6] [7] He was succeeded by Montreal Citizens' Movement (RCM) member Jean Durivage on the City Council.. Lamarre cited as his greatest achievement a city housing project launched in 1979.[6] He subsequently pursued his interest in housing through the 1985 creation of Fondation Yvon Lamarre, which provides adapted residences for those with intellectual impairments.[8]