Victor Morin

Canadian politician Date Of Birth : 1865-08-15T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1960-09-30T00:00:00Z

Victor Morin (August 15, 1865 – September 30, 1960) was a Canadian notary, politician, and writer.
Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East, Morin studied at the Université Laval de Montréal. In 1890, he started working as a notary in his uncle’s firm Papineau & Marin. He would practice his profession for the next 72 years.
In 1910, he was elected to the Montreal City Council for the Centre (Vieux-Montréal) district.
From 1915 to 1924, he was president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he served as its president from 1938 to 1939.
He is the author of the Code Morin, a book of rules for conducting deliberative assemblies, used in Quebec and Acadia. Morin’s rules are inspired by Robert’s Rules of Order.

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