Background
Perron was born in Portneuf in 1866, and moved to Egg Lake in what is now Sturgeon County, Alberta in February 1883, after hearing Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin encouraging francophones to move west.
Businessman butcher General mayor
Perron was born in Portneuf in 1866, and moved to Egg Lake in what is now Sturgeon County, Alberta in February 1883, after hearing Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin encouraging francophones to move west.
In 1896, Perron acquired the Windsor Hotel in Saint Albert, which he operated for four years before selling lieutenant In 1900, he opened a brick factory and purchased a general store which he operated with Cheri Hebert until 1907, when he bought out Hebert. In 1912, he re-entered the hotel business by becoming President of the Royal Hotel Company Limited, which opened the Royal Hotel in 1913 to replace another hotel that had burned down.
Though the hotel was "the best north of Edmonton, the advent of Prohibition in 1915 put an end to its viability, and it was soon closed and demolished.
In the meantime, in 1914, he and Hebert had acquired a paddleboat called the Ste. Theresa which they used to offer recreational trips on the Sturgeon River and Big Lake.
When water levels in the river fell too low for the boat to operate, it was relocated to Lac Ste. Anne, where it was eventually destroyed in a storm.
In 1919 his general store was destroyed in a fire, and he opened a butcher shop.
His attempts were unsuccessful, and he returned to Saint Albert shortly thereafter. Upon his return, he rented another general store which he operated until his death. Though he had been one of many Saint Albert residents to sign a petition in 1898 protesting the previously unincorporated community"s incorporation as a village, Perron was nevertheless elected to the first Saint Albert Town Council in 1904 as a councillor.
He served in this capacity until 1907, when he was elected mayor.
He served one one-year term as mayor before leaving political life all together. In 1906, Perron became the first Lieutenant of the Saint Albert Troop of Squadron Doctorate, of the Saint Albert Mounted Rifles.
In 1912, he co-founded the Saint Albert Chamber of Commerce, and served as its first Vice President. He was also the first President of the Alberta French Canadian Association.
Fleuri and Lina Perron had nine children, six of whom survived infancy.
Another son, Eugene, married Evelyn Hogan, daughter of Michael Hogan, the longest serving mayor in Saint Albert"s history. Fleuri Perron died in 1931. Perron Street, a major street in Saint Albert"s downtown, is named in his honour.
lieutenant was renamed in 1967 from Piron Street.
The town council at the time claimed that it was only correcting a misspelling and that the road had always been intended to be named in Perron"s honour, but an alternative theory states that it had been originally named in honour of France"s Piron family, which had donated the bells for the Saint Albert mission.