Background
Hossak worked at his father"s grocery business until establishing his own business, a leather tannery.
Hossak worked at his father"s grocery business until establishing his own business, a leather tannery.
That enterprise was destroyed in the massive Quebec City fire of 1845 after which Hossak returned to selling groceries. After retiring from business and travelling through Europe and Egypt, Hossak returned to Quebec City and became a city councillor in the Street Louis ward for eight years until his appointment as the city"s Mayor in November 1869. However, Hossak was unable to legally maintain the Mayor"s chair because of his residency outside the city and therefore left office within two months.
He was a member of the city"s Chalmers Church serving as Treasurer in the late 1880s.