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By Robert Frank<\/b>
\nwww.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Early last week news came from southern France that the Lavals first mayor, Jean-No\u00ebl Lavoie, passed away near Cannes, March 17, at the age of 85.<\/p>\n

Lavoie, an ardent municipal-merger advocate, started the ball rolling when he was mayor of l\u2019Abord \u00e0 Plouffe. He orchestrated the town\u2019s amalgamation with neighbouring municipalities Renaud and St. Martin which created the city of Chomedey, and became Chomedey\u2019s first mayor in 1961.<\/p>\n

The following year he founded the bilingual weekly newspaper Citizen of \u00cele J\u00e9sus<\/i> as well as the Regroupement Municipal de l\u2019\u00cele J\u00e9sus,<\/i> which promoted even bigger municipal mergers.<\/p>\n

After Quebec municipal affairs minister Pierre Laporte decided to consolidate all 14 of the island\u2019s towns into the province\u2019s third-largest city, on Aug. 16, 1965, the mayors and aldermen of its former municipalities voted unanimously for Lavoie to serve as mayor until the newborn city\u2019s first election, Nov. 7, 1965.<\/p>\n

A notary by profession, Lavoie also had a distinguished career as a provincial politician. He was elected on the Liberal party ticket in 1960, and represented the Laval riding in the Quebec legislature until 1981. He served as speaker of the National Assembly from 1970-1976, where the procedural reforms that he introduced in 1973 became known as the Code Lavoie.<\/i>
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\nAfter Premier Robert Bourassa resigned in the wake of the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois victory in 1976, Lavoie served as leader of the official opposition until 1979.<\/p>\n

In 1998, he published La saga de Laval, <\/i>a history of the city that he helped to found.<\/p>\n

In 1991, Lavoie was recognized for his accomplishments with the Order of the Pleiades\u2014an honour bestowed by a Luxembourg-based association of French-speaking parliamentarians. The following year, he was invested as a member of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n

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