Gérald Godin (November 13, 1938 – October 12, 1994) was a Canadian poet and politician from Quebec.
Born in Trois-Rivières, he worked as a journalist at La Presse and other newspapers and magazines. His most important poetry collection, Les cantouques: poèmes en langue verte, populaire et quelquefois française, was published in 1967. He was among those arrested under the War Measures Act during the October Crisis in 1970.
In the 1976 Quebec provincial election, he won a seat as a candidate for the Parti Québécois, heavily defeating incumbent Premier Robert Bourassa in his own riding of Mercier. He served in various cabinet posts in the governments of René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson. His life companion was the Québécois singer Pauline Julien.
As a poet, he won the Prix Québec-Paris for his 1987 work Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler.
Godin died from brain cancer in October 1994.[1]
The area surrounding the Mont-Royal metro station has been named Place Gérald-Godin in his honour. One of his poems, Tango de Montréal, is displayed as a mural overlooking the square.[2]
Cégep Gérald-Godin (college), in Sainte-Geneviève, Montreal, is named after him.
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See also
- List of Mauriciens
- Politics of Quebec
- Quebec general elections
- History of Quebec
- Quebec sovereigntism
Electoral record
| 1989 Quebec general election: Mercier | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérald Godin | 13,371 | 57.15 | +10.04 | ||||
| Liberal | Daniel Gagnon | 7,117 | 30.42 | −12.39 | ||||
| Green | Manon Dubé | 1,961 | 8.38 | +6.67 | ||||
| New Democratic | Robert Saint-Louis | 567 | 2.42 | −2.27 | ||||
| Workers | Philippe Pouyer | 168 | 0.72 | +0.60 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Arnold August | 108 | 0.46 | – | ||||
| Socialist Movement | Gérard Talbot | 106 | 0.45 | – | ||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| 1985 Quebec general election: Mercier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérald Godin | 12,062 | 47.11 | −7.42 | ||||
| Liberal | John Parisella | 10,960 | 42.81 | +1.43 | ||||
| New Democratic | Roger Couvrette | 1,200 | 4.69 | |||||
| Green | Yves Blanchette | 437 | 1.71 | |||||
| Humanist | Colette Renaud | 348 | 1.36 | |||||
| Parti indépendantiste | Denis Bourgeois | 319 | 1.24 | |||||
| Independent | Gilles Côté | 97 | 0.38 | −0.02 | ||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Elena Mendez | 75 | 0.29 | |||||
| Communist | Gaetan Trudel | 73 | 0.29 | |||||
| No designation | Philippe Pouyer | 31 | 0.12 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 25,602 | |||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 451 | |||||||
| Turnout | 26,053 | 71.12 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 36,635 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| 1981 Quebec general election: Mercier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérald Godin | 16,252 | 54.53 | +3.15 | ||||
| Liberal | Yves Bériault | 12,333 | 41.38 | +4.27 | ||||
| Union Nationale | Roger Courtemanche | 495 | 1.66 | −5.89 | ||||
| Workers Communist | Roger Rashi | 250 | 0.84 | - | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Jacques Côté | 125 | 0.42 | - | ||||
| United Social Credit | Gilles Côté | 118 | 0.40 | −2.07 | ||||
| Independent | Richard Langlois | 116 | 0.39 | |||||
| Workers | Gérard Lachance | 115 | 0.38 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,804 | 100,00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 489 | 1,61 | ||||||
| Turnout | 30,293 | 79.92 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 37,904 | |||||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | −0.56 | ||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| 1976 Quebec general election: Mercier | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérald Godin | 13,450 | 51.38 | +9.57 | ||||
| Liberal | Robert Bourassa (incumbent) | 9,714 | 37.11 | −15.76 | ||||
| Union Nationale | Giuseppe Anzini | 1,975 | 7.55 | +5.97 | ||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Robert Roy | 647 | 2.47 | −0.64 | ||||
| NDP - RMS coalition | Henri-François Gautrin | 139 | 0.53 | - | ||||
| Communist | Guy Desautels | 116 | 0.44 | - | ||||
| Workers | Gaston Morin | 77 | 0.30 | - | ||||
| No designation | Louise Ouimet | 58 | 0.22 | - | ||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| Parti Québécois gain from Liberal | Swing | +12.67 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Passages". Maclean's. Rogers Media. 24 October 1994. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ "Tango de Montréal". Art Public Montréal. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
External links
- Gérald Godin's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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