Biography

The Honourable Pierre Duchesne was born in La Malbaie on February 27, 1940. His father Lorenzo Duchesne, now deceased, and his mother, Anne-Marie Bouchard, today 91 years of age, had 10 children.

In 1955, His Honour entered Chicoutimi’s Seminary where he completed his classical course and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. Continuing his academic formation at Québec’s Université Laval, he completed a law degree. Acting as a notary in Sept-Îles he then entered the National Assembly of Québec in 1974. For the next 10 years, he occupied many functions, becoming General Secretary of the National Assembly in 1984. After retiring in 2001, he acted as a special counsellor to the National Assembly until 2003.

During his career at the National Assembly, he regularly gave speeches to professionals’ associations. He also published articles about parliamentary procedure and administration in specialised magazines including one on the subject of security in Parliaments.

He directed a collective publication entitled La Procédure parlementaire du Québec and is the author of  Règlement annoté de l’Assemblée nationale.

While living in Sept-Îles or in Québec City, he was socially engaged in many governors’ boards for hospitals, chambers of commerce, sports and leisure clubs and other community and/or non-profit organisations such as the Club Richelieu.

He is also an officer of the Ordre de la Pléiade.

On June 7^th, 2007, he was sworn in as the 28^th Lieutenant Governor of the province of Québec. 

Their Honours, the Honourable Pierre Duchesne and his wife, Ginette Lamoureux have three children and seven grandchildren.