Jean-Noël Lavoie (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ nɔɛl lavwa]; November 24, 1927 – March 17, 2013) was a notary and former political figure in Quebec.
[2] He was born in Montreal, the son of Zéphirin Lavoie and Laura Gaudreault, and was educated at the Saint-Arsène Orphanage there, at the Collège Laval in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, at the Collège de Saint-Laurent and the Université de Montréal.
Lavoie qualified as a notary in 1951 and entered practice in L'Abord-à-Plouffe [fr] (later part of Laval).
He was a driving force behind the formation of the city of Laval and was its first mayor in 1965; he was defeated when he ran for reelection later that year.
[2] Lavoie ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1956 and then was elected in 1960 and re-elected in 1962 and 1966.