Alphonse Desjardins - Lévis, Québec
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N 46° 48.501 W 071° 10.880
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Né à Lévis, Alphonse Desjardins est le fondateur du mouvement des caisses populaires au Québec. Born in Lévis, Alphonse Desjardins is the founder of the caisse populaire movement in Quebec.
Waymark Code: WM113K6
Location: Québec, Canada
Date Posted: 08/10/2019
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Inscription sur la plaque:
Né à Lévis, fondateur du mouvement des caisses populaires au Québec, Desjardins fut journaliste, éditeur des débats de l'Assemblé nationale et sténographe à la Chambre des communes avant de découvrir sa vraie vocation. Désireux de voir s'améliorer la situation financière du Québécois moyen et de remédier a l'absence d'institutions bancaires canadiennes-françaises, il songea à des sociétés coopératives d'épargne et de prêt qui seraient organisées dans chaque paroisse. Il fonda la première société du genre à Lévis en 1900 et consacra les vingt dernières années de sa vie a consolider son mouvement. Il est mort à Levis.
Inscription on the plaque:
The founder of the caisse populaire movement in Quebec, Desjardins was born at Levis. He had been a journalist, publisher of the Debates of the Quebec House of Assembly, and stenographer in the Canadian House of Commons before discovering his life's mission. Concerned about the financial betterment of the ordinary Québecois and the general lack of French Canadian banking institutions, he conceived the idea of co-operative savings and loan societies organized on a parish basis. He founded the first such society in Levis in 1900 and devoted the last 20 years of his life to the extension of this movement. He died at Levis.
Classification: National Historic Person
Province or Territory: Quebec
Location - City name/Town name: Lévis
Link to Parks Canada entry (must be on www.pc.gc.ca): [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca: Not listed
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