Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, QC (French pronunciation: [dyplɛsi]; April 20, 1890 – September 7, 1959), byname "Le Chef" ("The Boss"), was a Canadian lawyer...

The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were a population of Canadian children wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial...

Maurice Duplessis was Premier of Quebec, Canada, from 1936 to 1939 and again from 1944 to 1959 as leader of the Union Nationale (UN) caucus in the Legislative...

from 1944 to 1960 and from 1966 to 1970. The party was founded by Maurice Duplessis, who led it until his death in 1959. The party was often referred...

expression the "Two Solitudes". In the wake of the conscription crisis, Maurice Duplessis of the Union Nationale ascended to power and implemented a set of...

Parliament Building in Quebec City, during the administration of Maurice Duplessis. Legislation governing its usage was enacted on March 9, 1950. Quebec's...

Duplessis, [1959] S.C.R. 121, was a landmark constitutional decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. The court held that in 1946 Maurice Duplessis, both...

Lucile Duplessis, a French Revolutionary figure, wife of Camille Desmoulins Marie Duplessis, a French courtesan and mistress Maurice Duplessis (1890-1959)...

Look up Duplessis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Duplessis may refer to: Duplessis (surname) Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959), the 16th premier of Quebec...

Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was the father of Premier Maurice Duplessis. Duplessis was born in 1855 in Yamachiche, Mauricie, Canada East, the son...

the governing body of Quebec Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis from 1936 to 1939 and from 1944 to 1959. Duplessis favoured rural areas over city development...

basketball player Maurice Crum (disambiguation), multiple people Maurice Deligne (1861–1939), French politician Maurice Duplessis (1890–1959), 16th Premier...

the paper to rise to the unions’ defence against Maurice Duplessis, the province’s Premier. Duplessis was the leader of Quebec’s conservative Union Nationale...

S2CID 144929356. Rumilly, Robert (1978). Maurice Duplessis et son temps, Tome II. Montreal: Fides. Black, Conrad (1977). Duplessis. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart...

is based in Montreal, Quebec, with head office at 11011 Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis. Metro is the third largest grocer in Canada, after Loblaw Companies...

Dundun Press, 2007 page 149 Maurice Duplessis reprend le pouvoir, Les Archives de Radio-Canada, August 8, 1944 Duplessis triomphe devant ses partisans...

first book on Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis. Black had been granted access to Duplessis' papers, housed in Duplessis' former residence in Trois-Rivières...

Duplessis was a historical television series in Quebec, Canada, that aired in 1978. It tells the story of Maurice Duplessis, the controversial premier...

second in a row) that Duplessis led his party to a general election victory. It was Godbout's third (and final) loss to Duplessis in a general election...

proposed St. Lawrence Seaway project with the United States. In 1937, Maurice Duplessis, the conservative Union Nationale premier of Quebec, passed the Padlock...

row) that Duplessis led his party to a general election victory. No party has since been able to win more than three elections in a row. Duplessis died in...

premier Adélard Godbout, defeated the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis. This was Godbout's second non-consecutive term of office and his...

propaganda. The law was introduced by the Union Nationale government of Maurice Duplessis and made it illegal to "use [a house] or allow any person to make...

Quebec under the system of responsible government. Under this system, Maurice Duplessis was Quebec's longest-serving premier, holding office for a total of...

1948, in opposition to the repressive rule of Premier of Quebec Maurice Duplessis and the decadent "social establishment" in Quebec, including the Catholic...

and was known for his crusading work against Quebec's then-Premier Maurice Duplessis. In 1950, he graduated from the Law School at the Université de Montreal...

during the Duplessis years, such as the tragedy of the Duplessis Orphans. Agitation for reform came from liberal Quebeckers during the Duplessis years, although...

Province of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale, led by former premier Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout...

deceased Mgr. Anastase Forget, bishop of Saint-Jean; however, Premier Maurice Duplessis intervened, to avoid the connotations of the English word "forget...

strike. [citation needed] The strike was illegal. Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis sided strongly with the companies, largely due to his hostility to...