Léon Trépanier

Léon Trépanier OBE, (June 29, 1 and later worked at La Patrie and Le Devoir. Trépanier represented Defontaine on Montreal city council from 1921 to 1938. As president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, he proposed the installation of the illuminated cross on Mount Royal and initiated the annual parades held on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Montreal.

In 1906, he married Anne-Marie Gagnon.

Selected bibliography Figures de maires : Sévère-Dominique Rivard (1956) Figures de Maires : Édouard-Raymond Fabre (1959) Nos hôtels de ville (1960) On veut savoir - 4 volumes 1960-1962 L'affaire Walker à Montréal en 1764 (1962) Guillaume Lamothe (1824-1911) (1964) Les attributs de la mairie de Montréal (1966) Les rues du vieux Montréal au fil du temps (1968)

Honours Order of the British Empire (1943) Rue Léon-Trépanier in Trois-Rivières and Rue Léon-Trépanier in Sherbrooke were named in his honour