Edmond Thibaudeau
Edmond Thibaudeau, also known as "L'Orignal à Thibaudeau", was a local politician in Shawinigan, Quebec. He was the fifth Mayor of Shawinigan, Quebec from 1915 to 1917. He was born in 1872 in Saint-Grégoire, Centre-du-Québec and has Acadian ancestry. In the early 1900s, Thibaudeau operated a small private power plant on the Petite Rivière Shawinigan and was therefore competing with the Shawinigan, Water & Power Company for the local distribution of electricity. Thibaudeau is most remembered for his flamboyant personality. He earned his nickname, "L'Orignal à Thibaudeau" (Thibaudeau the Moose), after he regularly rode through the  streets of Shawinigan on a moose-drawn carriage. Thibaudeau was a City Councillor from 1904 to 1909 and from 1913 to 1915. He successfully ran for Mayor in 1915 against incumbent Joseph-Auguste Frigon. Under his tenure the first streets (Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth streets) were paved. Thibaudeau was defeated by Joseph-Auguste Frigon in 1917. He died in 1957.