Trefflé Berthiaume

Trefflé Berthiaume (August 4, 1848 – January 2, 1915) was a Canadian typographer, newspaperman and politician.

He was born in Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada as one of the five children of Gédéon Berthiaume and Éléonore Normandin. Berthiaume was only four years old when his father died. In 1859, after his primary schooling, he joined the Séminaire de Saint-Hyacinthe. he helped La Presse to become a sensationalistic people's paper, drawing from American "yellow journalism" of the time. It once featured drawings of a female murderer's thoughts.

He was called to the Legislative Council of Quebec for the division of Alma in 1896 and served until his death in 1915.

He died in Montreal in 1915 and is buried in the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.