Background
He was born in Coderre, Saskatchewan, the son of Eudore Coderre and Clodia Charbonneau, and was educated in Coderre and at the College Mathieu in Gravelbourg.
He was born in Coderre, Saskatchewan, the son of Eudore Coderre and Clodia Charbonneau, and was educated in Coderre and at the College Mathieu in Gravelbourg.
He represented Gravelbourg from 1956 to 1971 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. From 1937 to 1939, Coderre worked at a nurse at the Provincial Hospital in Weyburn. He was twice mentioned in dispatches.
After the war, Coderre owned and operated the local power plant and a hardware store / electrical contracting business in Coderre.
Coderre also served six years on the village council for Coderre. Coderre was elected to the legislature in 1956 and was reelected in 1960, 1964, and 1967.
He was Saskatchewan"s first French speaking cabinet minister as he served in Premier West. Ross Thatcher"s two provincial cabinets as Minister of Labour, Minister of Company-operation and Company-operative Development and Minister of Public Works. He was defeated by Regional Gross when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1971.
