He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1957 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Glengarry and then Stormont.
He was born in Fugèreville, Quebec, the son of Pascal Guindon and Josephine Lalonde, and he was educated in Bourget, Ontario and at the University of Ottawa.
The business later expanded to include a second service station on Marleau Avenue, in Cornwall, and it remains active today (2014).
He was able to engineer a compromise that brought to an end a 30-day strike that had seen 120,000 tons of garbage piled up at 200 temporary collection sites across the city.
[12] In 1974, Guindon resigned his seat to run unsuccessfully in the federal riding of Stormont—Dundas, losing to the Liberal candidate, Ed Lumley.
[1] In deference to his lengthy public service, the largest park in the west end of the City of Cornwall, Ontario was named in his honour while he was still an MPP.