Background
He was born at Saint-Damase, Quebec.
He was born at Saint-Damase, Quebec.
He was a master butcher, meat cutter, farmer and merchant by career. Fontaine was mayor of Notre-Dame-de-Saint-Hyacinthe parish between 1938 and 1952. He was first elected to Parliament at the Saint Hyacinthe—Bagot riding in the 1945 general election.
With a minor spelling change to the riding in 1947, he was re-elected at Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in 1949 and 1953.
He was defeated by Théogène Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.