A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography: Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth century
Canada -- Biography
to “Canada and Its Provinces,” a synopsis of the History of Quebec under
Confederation and an extensive history of colonization under this title:
“The Habitant”: and an outline of the municipal system in Lower Canada.
He has contributed to The Chronicles of Canada the “Patriotes of 1837,”
a history of the Canadian Rebellion. In 1904, he was named Chevalier de
la Legion d’Honneur, and in 1907 received the title of C.M.G. In 1884,
he was received Member of the Royal Society, and since 1903 he has
occupied the post of President of l’Alliance Française. Mr. De Celles is
in religion a Catholic, and he resides in Ottawa.
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=Evanturel, Gustave, M.P.P.= for Prescott Co. (Alfred), was born March
19, 1880, at Ottawa, son of the Hon. Alfred Evanturel and Louisa Lee.
Father was Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1898 to 1902 and
Minister in the Ross Government from Nov. 22, 1904, to Jan. 25, 1905.
Educated at Bourget College, Rigaud, and Seminaire de Ste. Therese,
P.Q., and Laval University, from which latter institution he graduated
with the degree of B.L. Married, Sept. 26, 1910, Marie Emelia, daughter
of the late Paul Chevrier, of Vaudreuil. Notary public by profession;
was President of L’Alliance Nationale, a mutual life insurance company
of the Court of Alfred, which is called “Cercle Evanturel.” Mr.
Evanturel has taken an active part in politics since the age of 17
years, especially in the County of Prescott, which his father
represented from 1884 until 1905, being the first French-Canadian to
enter the Ontario Legislature, the first representative of that race to
be Speaker of the Ontario Assembly, and the first French-Canadian to
enter the Ontario Government as Cabinet Minister. The subject of this
sketch was first returned to the Ontario Legislature to represent the
County of Prescott on December 11, 1911, with a majority of 284, and
re-elected on June 29, 1914, over two opponents by an increased majority
of 350, defeating the Conservative candidate by over 1,000. Was Civil
Servant in the Privy Council Department in 1908, and, on his election as
a member for Prescott County, when he succeeded his late father, was the
youngest member of the Assembly. He is an eloquent speaker in both
French and English, and has been a strong supporter of bi-lingualism on
the floor of the Ontario Legislature, being the first member of the
House to open the discussion on the bi-lingual school question during
the Session of the Legislature in the years 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915,
1916. He has all the fire and dash of his race and is extremely popular
on both sides of the House, and throughout Eastern Ontario, where he is
well known.
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