Philippe Adjutor Talbot (1879-1961)

MLA (1916-1920), MLA (1921-1922), MLA (1923-1927), MLA (1927-1932), MLA (1933-1936).

Born at St. Pierre du Sud, Quebec, 1879, he was educated at St. Ferdinand, Manitoba. He worked as a telegraph operator and agent for the Canadian Northern Railway at Mackinack, Somerset and St. Boniface. He left the Railway in 1906, entering the realty and coal business. In the provincial election of 1914 he contested La Verendrye and was defeated by J. B. Lauzon. He was first elected to the legislature in 1915 as a Liberal, but left the party in 1916 over the school question in Quebec. His motion of censure forced the Norris government to call an election, which it lost, in 1922. Under the successor Bracken government, Talbot was chosen Speaker of the House, serving until 1936, when he could not win renomination in his riding. He became clerk of the Executive Council in 1937 and remained there until his retirement in 1948.

He was a business partner of Senator Aime Benard. He organized and was Secretary-Treasurer of the Farmers Packing Company and a Director of the Excelsior Coal Mining Company and Northern Supply Company.

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Profile revised: 5 May 2008

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