The store, which included a chuck wagon, faced Metcalfe Square Park, at the corner of Sussex Drive.
[1] He was also a member of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, the French-Canadian Institute, the Knights of Columbus,[11] and the French Chamber of Commerce.
[1] He played goaltender for Montagnards and La Salle in the Ottawa City Hockey League.
Anne area (Lowertown East), and on Green Island, and said that "he would be going all out to win friends (on) council".
[20] In October 1950, his grocery and snack bar on Dalhousie Street suffered "considerable damage" by smoke and fire.
[22] At the beginning of the 1951–52 term, Aubin was appointed as one of the city's representatives to the Children's Aid Society.
[24] In the election, he topped the poll in the two-seat ward, winning 2,642 votes, fewer than 400 more than the third place candidate.
As a result, Aubin was elected to the ward's second seat, over 600 votes ahead of the third place candidate, Henri Rheaume.
[31] In 1955, following rumours that Ottawa East MP Jean-Thomas Richard would be appointed to the Senate, Aubin was seen as a possible candidate for the Liberals to replace him.
[33] At the beginning of 1958, Aubin was appointed to the revived Smoke Abatement Committee to deal with the increase of black smog emanating from the city's chimneys.
[35] Aubin ran for re-election again in the 1958 municipal elections, promising that all traffic signs in the ward would be bilingual within a year, and that King Edward Avenue would become a "beautiful boulevard".
[48] It was the first electoral loss for Aubin, who ended his term as the second longest sitting member on council, behind his seatmate Jules Morin.
[52] In the election, he came out in favour of Sunday sport, which was one of the referendum questions put up to voters, stating "I'd rather see a father take his sons to a baseball game than to a beach where they might see topless bathing suits".