Urbain Lafontaine
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Urbain Lafontaine
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Urbain Lafontaine was a typographer, trade union leader, newspaper owner, and municipal official from Quebec. He was one of the leading figures of the labour movement in Quebec in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Trois-Rivières, Canada East, he trained as a typographer as a youth before moving to New York City. He returned to Canada in 1866 and defended Ontario during the Fenian raids. After settling in Montreal, he helped organized the Union Typographique Jacques-Carti
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Canadian labour movement leader
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2023-11-22T04:35:16Z
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