Career
He represented Bonaventure in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1882 to 1890 as a Conservative. He was born in Rimouski, Canada East, the son of Édouard Martin and Catherine Lepage, and was educated in Rimouski, at the Séminaire de Québec and the Université Laval. Martin qualified as a doctor in 1877 and set up practice in Carleton.
He served as mayor of Carleton and was also president of the school board.
Martin was first elected to the Quebec assembly in an 1882 by-election held after Louis-Joseph Riopel was elected to the House of Commons. He died in Carleton at the age of 83.
