Henry Lemaître Auger

Henry Lemaître Auger (1873–1948) was a Canadian politician and a two-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

[1] He was born in West Boylston, Massachusetts on May 2, 1873, to Honoré Lemaître Auger and Marie-Élisabeth Héroux.

He ran for a seat on the city council of Montreal in 1930 and won against incumbent Damase Généreux.

Auger ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Montréal–Saint-Jacques in the 1935 election and won.

He was appointed to the Cabinet and served as Minister of Colonization until he was defeated by the Liberal candidate Joseph-Roméo Toupin in the 1939 election.