Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel

Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (November 4, 1852 – June 3, 1909) was a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner, and politician. Born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative candidate in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne in the 1882 federal election. He resigned less than two months later to allow Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, the Secretary of State of Canada, to run for office.

Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Terrebonne
In office June 20, 1882 – before August 16, 1882
Preceded by	Louis-Rodrigue Masson
Succeeded by	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Terrebonne
In office 1882–1900
Preceded by	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Succeeded by	Jean Prévost
Personal details
Born	November 4, 1852 Saint-Jérôme, Canada East
Died	June 3, 1909 (aged 56) Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Conservative
Other political affiliations	Conservative Party of Quebec
Relations	Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, brother Antonin Nantel, brother

In an August 1882 by-election, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the riding of Terrebonne. He was re-elected in 1886 and 1890. He was acclaimed again in 1892 and re-elected in 1897. He was the commissioner of public works in the cabinets of Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville and Louis-Olivier Taillon. He was also the commissioner of crown lands in the cabinet of Edmund James Flynn. He was defeated in the 1900 elections.

He died in Montreal in 1909. His brother, Wilfrid Bruno Nantel, was also a politician.

References

• Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel – Parliament of Canada biography
• "Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.