Pierre DesMarais

DesMarais ran for a seat on the Montreal City Council in 1940 and won. He was re-elected in 1942, 1944 and 1947, but did not run for re-election in 1950.

He co-founded the Civic Action League in 1951, with other good government activists who were known as the Public Morality Committee. He was re-elected in 1954 and 1957.^[1][2] He served as chairman of the Montreal Executive Committee during Drapeau's first term as mayor from 1954 to 1957.^[3]

In 1960, he lost the support of Jean Drapeau who founded the Civic Party of Montreal and lost his bid for re-election. He also was defeated in the district of Saint-Jacques in 1962.