Jacques J. Bouchard (2 September 1907 – 26 January 1982, Amos, Quebec) was called to the Order of Canada on 17 December 1973 and inducted as a member in Ottawa on 15 October 1975.
In the early 1950s, he started with Frank Blair Jr Abitibi Telephone Inc. which territory covered the newly discovered Matagami mining district.
A shrewd political organizer, he participates from the beginning to the odyssey of Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale party for which he remains an Abitibi mainstay until his death.
He retired from his insurance business in 1966, bought the farm he always wanted on the banks of his beloved Harricana River and continued to travel mainly in the United States and Mexico until his death on 26 January 1982.
Amos gives him a memorable funeral, co celebrated in the cathedral by a bishop and 9 priests in the presence of Joe Clark the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa and many local personalities.