Édouard Lacroix
Édouard Lacroix was a politician and business person in Quebec, Canada.
Background
He was born on January 6, 1889, in Sainte-Marie, Quebec. At the age of 12, he began working in United States lumber camps along the Maine border, where he learned the logging trade. He returned to Saint-Georges, Quebec, at the age of 16 and formed his own company in 1911. He made career in forestry and opened a lumber plant in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine.Member of Parliament
Lacroix ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Beauce in the 1925 federal election and won. He was re-elected in the 1926, 1930, 1935, and 1940 elections.In September 1939, Lacroix and his fellow Quebec Liberal MP Liguori Lacombe introduced an amendment calling for Canadian "non-participation" in the World War II, which reflected some reluctance by French Canadians to join Britain in the war. The two MPs, who proved to be the amendment's only supporters, were condemned in a Globe and Mail editorial the following day as "two French-Canadians who gained eternal distinction by an attitude unworthy of their people and country."
He left the Liberals and joined the Bloc populaire canadien on February 18, 1943. He resigned his seat on July 11, 1944, to switch to provincial politics.