Joseph Schubert (politician)

Joseph Schubert (1889 - 7 March 1952)^[1] was a Canadian politician, who served on Montreal City Council from 1924 to 1939.^[2] Originally from Romania, Schubert was a prominent labour unionist in the city,^[3] and was the only Labour Party representative on Montreal's city council.^[2] One of his first prominent actions as a city councillor was a speech protesting police harassment of participants in the city's 1924 May Day parade.^[4]

Joseph Schubert
Acting Mayor of Montreal
In office August 29, 1927 – November 1927
Preceded by	J.B. Rochon
Montreal City Councillor
In office 1924–1939
Personal details
Born	1889 Băilești, Romania
Died	March 7, 1952 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Labour Party
Residence(s)	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	Labour leader

In 1931, he built a public bathhouse at the corner of Bagg and St. Lawrence, which still stands today as the Schubert Bath (official French name: Bain Schubert).^[5]

He served for three months as the city's acting mayor, commencing August 29, 1927, under mayor Médéric Martin.^[6] (Despite the title "acting mayor", however, he was never the city's official leader; in modern terms, his role would be more accurately understood as that of a deputy mayor or a mayor pro tem.) Until the appointment of Michael Applebaum as interim mayor in 2012, he was the highest ranking Jewish official in the history of Montreal's municipal government.