Lucien Mongrain

Lucien Mongrain (June 24, 1932 – December 9, 2022)[1] was a Canadian politician and the Mayor of Trois-Rives, Mauricie in Canada.

Background

He was born in Shawinigan, Mauricie on June 24, 1932. He worked as a mechanic and in forestry.[2]

Political career

He ran for election as Mayor of Trois-Rives, then known as Boucher, in 1978, but lost against Elphège Desrosiers.

Mongrain ran again in 1981 and defeated the incumbent.

He was re-elected in 1985 and won every subsequent election,[3] running unopposed in 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013.[4]

In 2017, he won re-election with 247 votes (62.22%) against Joël Francoeur (77 votes) and Claude Doucet (73 votes).[5]

In 2021, he retired after forty years as mayor.[6]

During Mongrain's tenure (in 2007), a fire department that services Trois-Rives, as well as Grandes-Piles and Saint-Roch-de-Mékinac was established.[7] Lucien Mongrain ran a debt-free administration[8] that oversaw an increase in property value from $3.6 million in 1978 to $119 million in 2012 and in budget from $57,236 to $1,487,971, as well as infrastructure investments.[9]

Footnotes

1. Trois-Rives en deuil de son ancien maire (in French)
2. Francine Juneau & Hélène Beaudry Bellemare, Une municipalité, deux maires, Trois-Rives, Les 25 ans de Trois-Rives
3. Élus sans opposition - Mauricie, Radio-Canada, November 6, 2005
4. Elyse Allard, Sur la route des élections : arrêt à Trois-Rives, Radio-Canada, October 5, 2017
5. Élections 2017: les résultats dans Mékinac, L'Hebdo du St-Maurice, November 6, 2017
6. Louis Cloutier, Le doyen des maires prend sa retraite, Le Journal de Montréal, July 20, 2021
7. "«Éteindre des feux à la chaudière, c'est fini!» – Lucien Mongrain, Hugo Lemay, L'Hebdo du St-Maurice, August 28, 2007". Archived from the original on August 31, 2007. Retrieved September 2, 2007.
8. Amélie St-Yves, Un 10e mandat pour un maire de 85 ans, Le Journal de Montréal, November 10, 2017
9. Louise Plante, 30 ans de complicité municipale, Le Nouvelliste, February 20, 2012

Political offices
Preceded by Elphège Desrosiers	Mayor of Trois-Rives 1981–2022	Succeeded by Vacant