Montcalm Simard

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1921-2011)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| office = Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Témiscouata

| predecessor = Antoine Raymond

| successor = District was abolished in 1972

| term_start = 1966

| term_end = 1973

| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|10|4}}

| birth_place = Rivière-Bleue, Quebec

| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|25|1921|10|4}}

| death_place = Rivière-Bleue, Quebec

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| party = Union Nationale

| relations = Jean-Maurice Simard, brother

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Montcalm Simard (October 4, 1921 – January 25, 2011) was a Canadian politician in the Province of Quebec.{{Quebec MNA biography|simard-montcalm-5373}}

Background

Born in Rivière-Bleue, Quebec in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region near Maine and New Brunswick, he was the brother of politician Jean-Maurice Simard, who was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of the province of New Brunswick and Cabinet Minister from 1970 to 1985 and a member of the Senate of Canada from 1985 to 2001.

Mayor

Simard served as Mayor of Rivière-Bleue from 1957 to 1960 and from 1964 to 1975.

Member of the Provincial Legislature

He ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1966 election in the district of Témiscouata and won. He was re-elected in the 1970 election, but he did not run for re-election in the 1973 election.

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