He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Charlevoix—Saguenay from 1927 to 1936 and from 1939 to 1944. He held various cabinet positions including Minister of Labour, Minister of Labour, Games and Fisheries, and Minister of Mines and Fisheries. In 1944, he was made a judge.[2]
Edgar Rochette was the author of Notes sur la Côte-Nord du Bas-Saint-Laurent et le Labrador canadien, published in Quebec City by Imprimerie Le Soleil (limitée) in February 1927. The 138-page manuscript reproduces notes from trips to the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence in July and August 1926.[3]
^Edgar Rochette (February 1927). "Notes on the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Canadian Labrador". Internet Archive (in French). Le Soleil Printing House (limited). In the course of this excursion, while not losing sight of the special mission entrusted to me by the Government of the Province of Quebec, I became widely acquainted with the people and things of the coast, and I carefully recorded my observations.