Template:Quebec MLC biography

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

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This template creates a citation link to the biography page at the National Assembly of Quebec website of a parliamentarian in Quebec (or its predecessor entities, Lower Canada and Canada East) who never held elective office.

This includes members of the following non-elective, appointed bodies:

the Legislative Council of Quebec (1867 until abolition on December 31, 1968)
the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada 1841–1867, for Canada East (elective from 1856–1867)
the Special Council of Lower Canada 1838–1841
the Legislative Council of Lower Canada 1792–1838

Also some governors and administrators:

who were never members of a lower, elective parliamentary house.

In general, the lower parliamentary houses were elected, the upper houses were appointed.

Use {{Quebec MNA biography}} instead for those who held an elective office (even if later appointed to a non-elective body).

This includes members of the following elective bodies:

The present-day unicameral house, the National Assembly of Quebec
The above under its former name of Legislative Assembly of Quebec (1867 until name change on December 31, 1968)
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada 1841–1867, for Canada East
The Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada 1792–1838

Note: there was no elected house from 1838 to 1841, in the aftermath of the Lower Canada Rebellion.

{{Quebec MLC biography|####}}

ID (or just use first unnamed parameter): This is part of the URL for the member's biography. To look it up:

Go to http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/membres/notices/index.html
In the [A] [B] [C] [D] [E-F] [G] [H-I] [J-K] [L] [M] [N-O] [P] [Q-R] [S] [T-U] [V-Z] header, click on the letter corresponding to start of the member's surname
Find the member's name in the resulting listing and click on it (or right-click and use "copy URL" in your browser)
Extract the part of the URL between http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/patrimoine/anciens-parlementaires/ and .html

Note: If the URL is of the form http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/deputes/#####/index.html, use {{Quebec MNA bio}} instead.

Example: {{Quebec MLC biography|power-william-gerard-335}} for William Gerard Power

Result: "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

Example: {{Quebec MLC biography|power-william-gerard-335|William Gerard Power}} for William Gerard Power

Result: "Biography of William Gerard Power". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

Note: the old (pre-2010) external-link URLs of the form

http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/Membres/notices/d/dutr2.shtml

are now deadlinks. Replace them.

name (or just use second unnamed parameter): if specified (and text is unspecified), sets link text to "Biography of name at National Assembly of Quebec website". This is useful if you need to cite a person's biography on some other person's page. Ignored if text was specified.
text : The link text. If unspecified (and name is also unspecified), this defaults to "Biography at National Assembly of Quebec website". Overrides name.
fr : Specify |fr=no to suppress the default notification that the webpage is in French.
Note: Nearly all of the biographies are available in French only, even if the URL uses /en/ instead of /fr/.