Ernest Cimon
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Ernest Cimon was a Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 lawyer, judge and political figure. He represented Chicoutimi—Saguenay
Chicoutimi—Saguenay
Chicoutimi—Saguenay was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1925.It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, and was amalgamated into the Chicoutimi and Lake St...

 in the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
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 as a Conservative
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 member from 1874 to 1882. His name also appears as Marie Honorius Ernest Cimon.

He was born at Murray Bay
La Malbaie, Quebec
La Malbaie is a municipality in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada, situated on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River, at the mouth of the Malbaie River...

, Canada East
Canada East
Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

 in 1848, the son of notary Cléophe Cimon
Cléophe Cimon
Cléophe Cimon was a notary and political figure in Canada East. His surname also appears as Simon.He was born at Saint-Étienne-de-la-Malbaie in 1822, the son of a merchant and navigator. Cimon studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec, qualified to practice as a notary in 1843 and set up practice...

, who represented Charlevoix in the legislative assembly for the Province of Canada. Cimon studied at the Université Laval
Université Laval
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, was called to the bar in 1871 and set up practice at Chicoutimi
Chicoutimi, Quebec
Chicoutimi is one of the three boroughs of Saguenay, Quebec, Canada, and was a separate city in its own right until 2002. Chicoutimi had a population of 59,764 in the Canada 2001 Census, the last census in which Chicoutimi was counted as a separate city....

. He served as Crown Prosecutor there and also as mayor. In 1882, he was named to the Quebec Superior Court
Quebec Superior Court
Quebec Superior Court is the highest trial Court in the Province of Quebec, Canada. It consists of 144 judges who are appointed by the federal government.Chief Justices : [partial listing]* Edward Bowen...

 for Gaspé district, later serving in Joliette, Kamouraska and Montmagny districts. In 1891, Cimon married Stella, the daughter of Hector-Louis Langevin
Hector-Louis Langevin
Sir Hector-Louis Langevin, PC, KCMG, CB, QC was a Canadian lawyer, politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation....

. He retired from the bench in 1914.

Cimon died at Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

 in 1917.

His daughter Stella married Louis Côté
Louis Côté
Louis Côté was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1929 to 1934 and was also a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Ottawa East division from 1933 to 1943.He was born in Ottawa in...

, who later served in the Canadian senate.

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