At the age of twelve he began working in United States lumber camps along the Maine border, where he learned the logging trade.
[3] Lacroix ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Beauce in the 1925 federal election and won.
In September 1939, Lacroix and fellow Quebec Liberal MP Liguori Lacombe introduced an amendment calling for Canadian "non-participation" in the Second World War, reflecting some reluctance in French Canada to join Britain in war.
The two MPs, who proved to be the amendment's only supporters, were condemned in a Globe and Mail editorial the following day as "two French-Canadians who gained eternal distinction by an attitude unworthy of their people and country.
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