COTE, JEAN-LEON (226 ENGLISH)
SORRY, this is the second time I have Jean-Léon Côté - a senior
moment.....this is my mistake.
Jean-Léon son Cleophas Coté + Denise Boudreault
Jean-Léon n. 1867-05-06 Eboulements, QC
m. 1907-02- ND Québec + Cécile Gagnon
(Gustave)
d. 1924-09-21 Les Eboulements
Jean-Léon Coté
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Born May 5, 1867 in Les Eboulements, Lower Canada, the son of Cléophas Côté Jean-Léon was educated in Montmagny Commercial Academy and he attended the Ottawa College where he qualified eventually as a surveyor and engineer. He then worked for the Department of the Interior as a land surveyor from 1893 to 1900. He was a member of the International Alaska Boundary Commission, which defined the frontier between Canada and Alaska in the 1890's. He was also a member of the surveying group that ran the second base line south of Winnipeg. From 1900 to 1902, he completed the legal survey of the Dawson City area in the Yukon. He came to Alberta in 1903, and settled in Edmonton where he became a senior partner in a land surveying and engineering company. He became a prominent businessman. Interested in provincial politics, Jean-Léon, running as a liberal, successfully contested the riding of Athabasca in 1909. He was re-elected as the member for Grouard in 1913, was re-elected once more in 1921. He sat for fourteen years in the Legislature. Premier Charles Stewart appointed Côté Provincial Secretary in 1918. He held this cabinet portfolio for three years. Prime Minister MacKenzie King appointed him to the Senate in August, 1923. In the Alberta prohibition debate of 1923, senator J.L. Côté joined Senator W.A. Greisbach, ex-mayor William Short, and ex-mayor Joseph A. Clarke and became active in the Moderation League. This groupe exhorted citizens to vote down Prohibition and "Make Alberta Safe for Democracy and a Good Place to Live." Their successful campaign ended seven years of prohibition in Alberta. In 1907, he married Cécile Gagnon. They had five sons. Côté died after serving less than a year in the Senate. He was fifty years of age.
ref: French Canadians in the Political Life of the Province of
Alberta (1891-2005)
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