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Jean Georges Garneau

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Preceded by
  
Georges Tanguay

Name
  
Jean-Georges Garneau


Role
  
Politician

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Profession
  
railroad engineer, professor

Died
  
February 5, 1944, Quebec City, Canada

Succeeded by
  
Olivier-Napoleon Drouin

Sir Jean-Georges Garneau (19 November 1864 – 5 February 1944) was a Canadian politician, the mayor of Quebec City from 1906 to 1910.

Sir Georges Garneau was a railroad engineer involved in the construction of track between Lac Saint-Jean and Quebec City. In 1904, he became an analytical chemistry professor at Université Laval, before becoming Quebec City's mayor in 1906. From 1908 to 1939, he served as the first president of the National Battlefields Commission, which manages the Plains of Abraham site in Quebec City.

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Jean-Georges Garneau Wikipedia