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 The
founding assembly of the Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts Chamber
of Commerce, was presided by the attorney Gaston Gibeault,
on January 19, 1933, at 20h00, at the Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
city hall. “A great number of citizens” assisted
at the inaugural meeting, according to the minutes of the
assembly.
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
already had its association of retail merchants at the founding
of the Chamber in 1933. This should all be quite familiar,
as the Chamber of Commerce and the Association commerciale
coexisted during the ’70s et ’80s.
The
first executive committee of the Chamber was composed of
Omer St-Amour, president, Joséphat Raymond, vice-president,
and M. I. Walsh, vice-president, Gaston Gibeault, secretary-treasurer,
as well as J. A. Cloutier, H. D. Jack, A. Kempffer, P. Belhumeur,
Dr. J. A. Lacasse, Dr. Adrien Lambert, C. W. Honey and Ed
Godon as director.
The
first three committees of the Chamber were that of Advertising,
presided by C. W. Honey, of Commerce, led by J. A. Cloutier,
and Embellishment, under the direction of Dr. Adrien Lambert.
The
first executives of the Chamber included a Francophone and
an Anglophone vice-president. All notices of convocation
were written in both languages.
The
Chamber of Commerce was comprised of 63 members, only one
month after its foundation. A year later, the Chamber’s
membership reached 67.
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