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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

The Right Honourable '''Martial Asselin''', [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]], [[Order of Canada|OC]], [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] (born [[February 3]] [[1924]]) is a retired [[Canada|Canadian]] politician and former [[Lieutenant Governor]] of [[Quebec]] ([[1990]]–[[1996]]).

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]

| name = Martial Asselin

| honorific-suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|QC|size=100%}}

| image = Martial Asselin.png

| constituency_MP2 = [[Charlevoix (federal electoral district)|Charlevoix]]

| parliament2 = Canadian

| predecessor2 = [[Auguste Maltais]]

| successor2 = [[Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger]]

| term_start2 = March 31, 1958

| term_end2 = June 18, 1962

| predecessor3 = [[Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger]]

| successor3 = [[Gilles Caouette]]

| term_start3 = November 8, 1965

| term_end3 = October 30, 1972

| office4 = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for [[List of Quebec senators#Stadacona|Stadacona, Quebec]]

| appointed4 = [[Pierre Trudeau]]

| predecessor4 = [[Jean-Marie Dessureault]]

| successor4 = [[Claude Castonguay]]

| term_start4 = September 1, 1972

| term_end4 = August 9, 1990

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

| order = 25th

| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]

| governor_general = [[Ray Hnatyshyn]]<br />[[Roméo LeBlanc]]

| premier = [[Robert Bourassa]]<br />[[Daniel Johnson Jr.]]<br />[[Jacques Parizeau]]<br />[[Lucien Bouchard]]

| predecessor = [[Gilles Lamontagne]]

| successor = [[Jean-Louis Roux]]

| term_start = August 9, 1990

| term_end = August 8, 1996

| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|2|3}}

| birth_place = [[La Malbaie]], [[Quebec]], Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2013|1|25|1924|2|3}}

| death_place = [[Quebec City]], Quebec, Canada

| nationality =

| spouse = {{marriage|Pierrette Bouchard<ref>{{cite web |title=Enregsitrement de mariage |url=https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/fr/voir?id=H%3A%2FMariages%2F1953%2F06-0376%2F53-102068.jpg |publisher=[[Ministry of Health and Social Services (Quebec)|Ministry of Health and Social Services]] |date=October 28, 1950 |access-date=March 26, 2020 |language=fr |via=Institut généalogique Drouin |url-access=subscription}}</ref>|October 28, 1950|January 8, 1969|end=died}}<br />{{marriage|Ginette D'Auteuil<ref>{{cite web |title=Déclaration de mariage |url=https://www.genealogiequebec.com/membership/fr/voir?id=H%3A%2FMariages%2F1976%2F06-0884%2F76-140552.jpg |publisher=[[Ministry of Health and Social Services (Quebec)|Ministry of Health and Social Services]] |date=September 18, 1976 |access-date=March 26, 2020 |language=fr |via=Institut généalogique Drouin |url-access=subscription}}</ref>|September 18, 1976}}

| party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]

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'''Joseph Ferdinand Martial Asselin''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|QC}} (February 3, 1924 – January 25, 2013) was a [[Canadian]] politician and the [[List of lieutenant governors of Quebec#Lieutenant Governors of Quebec, 1867–present|25th]] [[Lieutenant Governor of Quebec]] (1990&ndash;1996).

==Life and career==

Born in [[La Malbaie, Quebec]], the son of Ferdinand Asselin and Eugénie Tremblay, he was called to the Quebec Bar in 1951. He was created [[Queen's Counse]]l in 1967. From 1957 to 1963, he was the Mayor of [[La Malbaie, Quebec]].

Born in [[La Malbaie]], [[Quebec]], the son of Ferdinand Asselin and Eugénie Tremblay, he was called to the [[Bar of Quebec]] in 1951. He became a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1967. From 1957 to 1963, he was the mayor of La Malbaie.

Asselin was first elected to the [[Canadian House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1958 Canadian federal election, 1958|1958 election]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament]] (MPCanada)|Member of Parliament]] in the [[John George Diefenbaker|Diefenbaker]] sweep. He represented the riding of [[Charlevoix]].

Asselin was defeated in the [[1962 Canadian federal election, 1962|1962 election]]. Despite no longer having a [[Legislative seat|seat]], heDiefenbaker wasappointed appointedAsselin to the position of [[Minister of Forestry in(Canada)|Minister Diefenbaker'sof pre-[[Canadian federal election, 1963|1963 electionForestry]] [[Canadianin cabinet]]1963, in the hope that he and the Tories would both win the upcoming [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963 election]].{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} He served for only a month until the defeat of the Conservatives and Asselin's failure to regain his seat.

He returned to the House of Commons in the [[1965 Canadian federal election, 1965|1965 election]], and he was re-elected in the [[1968 Canadian federal election, 1968|1968 election]].

Prior to the [[1972 Canadian federal election, 1972|1972 election]], he accepted an appointment to the [[Canadian Senate of Canada]]. He sat in the bodySenate until [[1990]], when he was appointed [[Lieutenantas Governorlieutenant ofgovernor Quebec]]by bythe [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], on the advice of Prime Minister [[Brian Mulroney]]. InAsselin was in office during the [[19961995 Quebec Referendum]] for sovereignty. In 1996, he was made an Officerofficer of the [[Order of Canada]].

In 1992, he was given the right to use the honorific style of "[[The Right Honourable]]", which is granted for life and to very few eminent Canadians.{{[cn}} On January 25, 2013, Asselin died at the [[List of hospitals in Quebec City|Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus de Québec]] in [[Quebec City]]. He was 88 years old.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/quebeccanada/politiquefederale/archives/2013/01/20130126-055631.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219183313/http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/quebeccanada/politiquefederale/archives/2013/01/20130126-055631.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 19, 2013 |title=Politicien de carrière – Martial Asselin est décédé |work=[[Canoe.ca]] |date=January 26, 2013 |language=fr |access-date=January 27, 2013 }}</ref>

In 1992, he was given the right to use the title "[[The Right Honourable]]" which is granted for life and to very few eminent Canadians.

==Coat of arms==

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|image = Martial Asselin Arms.svg

|bannerimage =

|badgeimage =

|notes = The arms of Martial Asselin consist of:<ref>{{citation|title=Canadian Heraldic Authority (Volume II)

|year=1992 |publisher=Ottawa}}</ref>

|adopted =

|crest = Above a helmet mantled Azure doubled Argent on a wreath of these colours an eagle wings addorsed and inverted Azure beaked and membered Or armed and langued Azure wearing a coronet alternately érablé and fleurdelisé Argent holding in its dexter talons scales of justice Argent.

|torse =

|helm =

|escutcheon = Azure a chevron Argent cotised Or between in chief two mullets and in base a fleur-de-lys Or.

|supporters = Two stallions Argent crined and queued Or langued and unguled Azure gorged with a coronet fleurdelisé Azure charged on its rim with mullets Or.

|compartment = A grassy mound strewn with daisies proper.

|motto = Liberté Et Justice

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==References==

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* {{cite web|url=http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/pe/titre_e.cfm|title=Table of titles to be used in Canada|accessdate=February 7|accessyear=2006}}

* {{cite web|url=http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/cpsc-ccsp/pe/titre_e.cfm|title=Table of titles to be used in Canada|access-date=February 7, 2006}}

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/fra/membres/notices/a/assem.htm Biography] at the official [[National Assembly of Quebec]] website {{fr icon}}

* [http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/patrimoine/anciens-parlementaires/asselin-martial-19.html Biography] at the official [[National Assembly of Quebec]] website {{in lang|fr}}

* {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=arndt&t=73387&d=2569|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|accessdate=February 7|accessyear=2006}}

* {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=arndt&t=73387&d=2569|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|access-date=February 7, 2006}}

==External links==

* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=7900}}

* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=537&s=M Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament]

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