Alphonse Desjardins (politician)

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Alphonse Desjardins

| honorific-suffix = PC

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| order = 22nd Mayor of Montreal

| term_start = 1893

| term_end = 1894

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| predecessor = James McShane

| successor = Joseph-Octave Villeneuve

| constituency_MP2 = Hochelaga

| parliament2 = Canadian

| predecessor2 = Louis Beaubien

| successor2 = Séverin Lachapelle

| term_start2 = 1874

| term_end2 = 1892

| office3 = Senator for De Lorimier, Quebec

| appointed3 = John Abbott

| predecessor3 = Alexandre Lacoste

| successor3 = François Béchard

| term_start3 = 1892

| term_end3 = 1896

| office4 = Minister of Militia and Defence

| term_start4 = 15 January 1896

| term_end4 = 27 April 1896

| primeminister4 = Mackenzie Bowell

| predecessor4 = Mackenzie Bowell

| successor4 = David Tisdale

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1841|5|6}}

| birth_place = Terrebonne, Province of Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1912|6|4|1841|5|6}}

| death_place = Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada

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| profession = businessman, journalist, lawyer

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Alphonse Desjardins, PC ({{IPA|fr|alfɔ̃s deʒaʁdɛ̃}}; 6 May 1841 – 4 June 1912) was born in Terrebonne, Canada East, and was mayor of Montreal from 1893 to 1894 and later a Canadian cabinet minister. He married Virginie Paré in 1864 and remarried Hortense Barsalou in 1880.

He was a lawyer, journalist, businessman and politician. He owned a tile factory and participated in the founding of the Banque Jacques-Cartier, which later became part of the National Bank of Canada. He represented the riding of Hochelaga in the House of Commons for 18 years, serving as a cabinet minister and Minister of Militia and Defence for a few months at the end of the Mackenzie Bowell government and then the short-lived Tupper government in 1896. He was named a senator in 1892. He became mayor of Montreal from 1893–1894. For a time he held all three posts (member of the House of Commons, Senator, mayor) simultaneously.

In 1872, he was created a Knight of the Order of Pius IX in acknowledgment of his services to the Catholic Church.