Joseph-Octave Villeneuve

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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = Joseph-Octave Villeneuve
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order = 23rd Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1894
term_end = 1896
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predecessor = Alphonse Desjardins (politician)
successor = Richard Wilson-Smith
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birth_date = 4 March 1836
birth_place = Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Lower Canada
death_date = death date and age|1901|6|27|1836|3|4
death_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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profession = businessman
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Joseph-Octave Villeneuve (4 March 1836 – 27 June 1901) was a Canadian businessman, provincial politician, and senator.

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.

External links

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=2081&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7121 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/v-z/VILLJO.htm Joseph-Octave VILLENEUVE] at Assemblée nationale du Québec fr icon