Jean-Élie Gingras

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| name = Jean-Élie Gingras

| honorific-suffix = M.L.C.

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| office = Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec

| term_start = November 2, 1867

| term_end = December 10, 1887

| constituency = The Laurentides

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| successor = Guillaume Bresse

| office2 = Member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada

| term_start2 = September 19, 1864

| term_end2 = July 1, 1867

| constituency2 = Stadacona

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| office3 = Councillor, Municipal Council of Quebec

| term_start3 = 1850

| term_end3 = 1851

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1804|06|15}}

| birth_place = Quebec City, Lower Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|1891|4|13|1804|06|15}}

| death_place = Quebec City, Quebec

| party = Conservative party of Quebec

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| spouse = (1) Reine Labbé (1826)
(2) Caroline Lacroix (1856)
(3) Marie-Rébecca Godbout (1887)

| profession = Navigator and ship-builder

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Jean-Élie Gingras (June 5, 1804 – April 13, 1891) was a navigator, ship-builder, and politician in Quebec, Canada.[http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/patrimoine/anciens-parlementaires/gingras-jean-elie-187.html Quebec National Assembly - Québec Dictionary of Parliamentary Biography, from 1764 to the present: Jean-Élie Gingras.]

Born in 1804 in Quebec City, Gingras became a navigator, and then eventually moved into ship-building. He became a member of Trinity House, Quebec.[http://www.profs.hst.ulaval.ca/Dfyson/Courtstr/trinity.htm Donald Fyson, Evelyn Kolish and Virginia Schweitzer, "The Court Structure of Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764 to 1860: Trinity Houses" (Montreal: Montreal History Group, 1994/1997/2019).]

Gingras served two terms on the municipal council of Quebec, in 1850 and 1851. In 1864 he was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada, for the division of Stadacona. He held that seat until Confederation in 1867, when he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec for the division of the Laurentides, as a supporter of the Conservative Party of Quebec. He held the seat until 1887, when he resigned.

Gingras was married three times: to Reine Labbé in 1826; Caroline Lacroix in 1856; and to Marie-Rébecca Godbout in 1887. He died in 1891 at Quebec.