predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date imagesize party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
alphonse alfred clément larivière canadian john patrick molloy montreal , quebec provencher 12 april 1929 200px liberal member boniface of the legislative assembly of manitoba from st. 04 september 1854 1904 1883 joseph ernest cyr.jpg joseph ernest cyr
 1908 1888 joseph ernest cyr
joseph ernest cyr

joseph ernest cyr -lrb- september 4 , 1854 -- april 12 , 1929 -rrb- was a canadian politician .
born in montreal , quebec , the son of michel cyr and mary-louise moquin , cyr was educated at st. laurent college near montreal .
he moved to st. boniface , manitoba in 1882 and was mayor in 1885 .
a notary , he was elected to the legislative assembly of manitoba in an 1883 by-election held following the death of alexander kittson .
cyr was defeated when he ran for reelection to the manitoba assembly in 1888 .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for the federal riding of provencher in 1887 , then was elected to the canadian house of commons for provencher in 1904 .
in 1910 , cyr was named superintendent of dominion public works in winnipeg .
he married adelaide cesarine senez in 1875 .
