User:P.T. Aufrette/Labor Party (Quebec)

The Parti ouvrier (Labour Party) of Quebec was active from the end of the 19th century to the 1930s.

Candidates using the label "ouvrier" (worker) first ran unsuccessfully in the 1886 Quebec election; however, a party was not formed until 1899, by members of the Conseil des métiers et du travail de Montréal, including Joseph-Alphonse Rodier and Albert Saint-Martin. In 1917, they became affiliated with Labour parties in the rest of Canada.

A number of candidates elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ran under the banner of "Parti ouvrier", from the 1890 election until the 1931 election. They represented predominantly labour-class neighbourhoods in Montreal and Quebec City and consisted of:


 * Joseph Béland, MLA for the district of Montréal n°1 from 1890 to 1892
 * Joseph-Alphonse Langlois, MLA for Saint-Sauveur from 1909 to 1916
 * Aurèle Lacombe, MLA for Montréal-Dorion from 1919 to 1923
 * Adélard Laurendeau, MLA for Maisonneuve from 1919 to 1923
 * Joseph Gauthier, MLA for Montréal-Sainte-Marie from 1921 to 1923
 * Pierre Bertrand, MLA for Saint-Sauveur from 1923 to 1927
 * William Tremblay, MLA for Maisonneuve from 1927 to 1931

The party began to decline in the 1920s, facing competition on the left from the Parti communiste du Québec, which was founded in 1921, and losing the support of the Conseil des métiers et du travail de Montréal labor unions in 1925.