What is "bourassa"

Bourassa (formerly known as Montreal—Bourassa) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 100,683.

Bourassa may refer to:

• Bourassa (electoral district), federal electoral district in Quebec
• Bourassa (provincial electoral district), in Quebec
• Bourassa-Sauvé (provincial electoral district), in Quebec

• François Bourassa (1813–1898), was a Quebec farmer and political figure
• François Bourassa (musician) (born 1959), a Québécois jazz pianist
• Henri Bourassa (1868–1952), a Québécois politician noted for his French Canadian nationalism
• Jocelyne Bourassa (born 1947), golfer
• Joseph Boutin Bourassa (1853-1943), a politician
• Lucien Bourassa (1884-1937), mayor
• Robert Bourassa (1933–1996), politician and former Quebec Premier

• Henri Bourassa Boulevard
• Robert-Bourassa generating station
• Robert-Bourassa Reservoir
• Bourassa State Forest
• Place Bourassa, mall
• Bourassa (automobile), various one-off automobiles built by Henri-Emile Bourassa between 1899 and 1926.

Bourassa is a former provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada.

It included part of the city and later borough of Montréal-Nord.

It was created for the 1966 election from part of Bourget electoral district. Its last election was in 1998. It disappeared in the 2003 election. Its successor electoral districts were Bourassa-Sauvé (formed by merging part of Bourassa with all of Sauvé electoral district) and Crémazie.

It was named after nationalist politician Henri Bourassa, who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1907 to 1912 and also served in the Canadian House of Commons.

The Bourassa was a series of one-off automobiles constructed by Montreal engineer Emile-Henri Bourassa (1877-1956) between 1899 and 1926. These vehicles ranged in size from runabouts to a 7-passenger tourer, as well as two cars designed for the Ledoux Carriage Company in 1914.

Bourassa's final car used a Rickenbacker chassis, and featured an L-head engine with a special manifold and electrically heated carburetor, and transmission of his own design. The car gave excellent fuel economy of 31 miles per gallon, but no investors were prepared to give Bourassa the finances needed to get the car into production. After six years of trying to get the car into production, Bourassa had the car demolished in 1932.

Aside from his vehicles, Bourassa's main claim to fame was that Louis Chevrolet lived with Bourassa for eight months after his arrival in Canada from France.