Famous People with Name Cote

Antoine-Philéas Côté            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Antoine-Philéas Côté: was a Liberal party and Independent Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Métis, Quebec and became an author and journalist by career. He is known for his early attempts to officially establish "O Canada" as the national anthem and to rename the national holiday to Canada Day. He was first elected as an Independent Liberal member of Parliament at the Matapédia—Matane riding in the 1945 general election. He and a number of other Quebec Liberals had broken with their party the year before during the Conscription Crisis of 1944, quitting the party in order to oppose the government's decision to deploy National Resources Mobilization Act conscripts overseas. Previously, conscripts had only been used for "home defence" and kept within Canada. During his first term in office he joined the Liberal Party and became a member of the party's caucus and was re-elected in the 1949 election as an official Liberal candidate.

Guy Côté            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Guy Côté: is a Canadian politician. Côté has been involved in many non-profit organizations in Portneuf, among other things, serving as a School commissioner in Portneuf, Quebec (2003–2004) before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2004 federal election for the Bloc Québécois, a left-wing separatist party, in the riding of Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier. Côté is a former salesman. He worked briefly as a salesman for CKNU a local radio station of his riding. He has also been assistant to the former Bloc MP of Portneuf. During the 1980s, at the time of the beau risque and the Meech Lake constitutional reform, he was a member of the local association of the PC party in the riding of Langelier (now Quebec), under Gilles Loiselle, a strong believer in Canadian federalism.

Michel Côté            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Michel Côté: is businessman and former Canadian politician. Côté was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 election that brought Brian Mulroney to power in a landslide. Côté was elected Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Langelier, Quebec He was appointed to Mulroney's Cabinet as Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs shortly after the election. He served in that position until 1986, and also as Minister responsible for Canada Post Corporation from 1985 to 1987. From 1986 to 1987, he was also Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion. From 1987 to 1988, he was Minister of Supply and Services.

Pierre-Émile Côté            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Pierre-Émile Côté: was a Canadian politician. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in a 1924 by-election for Bonaventure. A Liberal, he was acclaimed in 1927 and re-elected in 1931 and 1935. He was defeated in 1936. He was Minister of Highways from March to August 1936. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1937 by-election for Bonaventure. A Liberal, he resigned in 1939 to return to provincial politics and was elected in 1939. He was Minister of Lands and Forests, Fish and Game from 1941 to 1942. He resigned in 1942, when he was appointed a judge of the Quebec Superior Court. He died in Quebec City in 1950.

Marc-Yvan Côté            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Marc-Yvan Côté: is a former Quebec politician and Cabinet Minister for the Quebec Liberal Party. He was the Health and Social Services Minister in the Robert Bourassa government from 1989 to 1994. Cote's first stint in provincial politics lasted three years from 1973 to 1976 in which he was elected in Matane before losing his seat in the 1976 elections when the Parti Québécois rose to power for the first time ever. After losing his seat, Cote for the Liberals until he returned as MNA in Charlesbourg in a 1983 by-election. Re-elected in 1985 when the Liberals and Bourassa returned to power, Cote was named Minister of Transports until his-reelection in 1989. He was named the Minister of Health and Social Services and was in charge in following the recommendations made by the Rochon Commission for the improvement of the health and social services system.