Nipissing (electoral district) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Nipissing was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

from 1896 to 2004. It was located in the northeastern part of Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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.

When it was first created, the riding took in the eastern half of Northeastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario

Northeastern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and east of Lakes Superior and Huron.Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskaming, Nipissing and Manitoulin; and the single-tier municipality of Greater...

, including the towns of North Bay

North Bay, Ontario

North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:...

and Sudbury. Before 1892, this region was part of the electoral district of Renfrew North

Renfrew North

Renfrew North was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1979. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867...

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It initially consisted of the temporary judicial district of Nipissing, and the townships of Head, Clara and Maria in the county of Renfrew, and a part of the district of Algoma.

In 1892, it was redefined to consist of the townships of Airey, Appleby, Awrey, Badgerow, Ballantyne, Biggar, Bishop, Blezard, Bonfield, Boulter, Bower, Boyd, Broder, Butt, Caldwell, Calvin, Cameron, Canisbay, Chisholm, Clara, Deacon, Devine, Dill, Dryden, Dunnet, Ferris, Field, Finlayson, Fitzgerald, French, Freswick, Grant, Hagar, Hawley, Head, Hugel, Hunter, Kirkpatrick, Lauder, Lister, Lorrain, Lyell, Maria, Mattawan, McCraney, McKim, McLaughlin, Merrick, Mulock, Murchison, Neelon, Olrig, Osler, Papineau, Paxton, Peck, Pentland, Phelps, Ratter, Robinson, Sabine, Springer, Widdifield and Wilkes, and a broad swath of northeastern Ontario between Georgian Bay and Hudson Bay/James Bay.

In 1903, it was redefined to consist of the territorial district of Nipissing, and the townships of Clara, Head and Maria in the county of Renfrew. In 1914, it was defined to consist of the territorial district of Nipissing, the eastern part of the territorial district of Sudbury, and the townships of Clara, Head and Maria in the county of Renfrew. In 1924, it was defined to consist of the southwest part of the territorial district of Nipissing, and the southeast part of the territorial district of Sudbury.

In 1947, it was defined to consist of the eastern part of the territorial district of Sudbury and the territorial district of Nipissing, excluding he townships of Ballantyne, Wilkes, Pentland, Boyd and Cameron and all townships south of them. Sudbury

Sudbury (electoral district)

Sudbury is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1949.Its population in 2001 was 89,443. The district is one of two serving the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario....

riding was created from the western portion of Nipissing.

In 1976, it was defined to consist of the northwest part of the Territorial District of Nipissing. In 1996, it was defined to consist of parts of the eastern part of territorial district of Parry Sound, and the western part of the Territorial District of Nipissing.

The electoral district was abolished in 2003 when it was merged into Nipissing—Timiskaming

Nipissing—Timiskaming

Nipissing—Timiskaming is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. The riding was formed by the amalgamation of the former Nipissing riding with the southeastern portion of the former Timiskaming—Cochrane...

riding

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

Parliament	Years		Party
8th 8th Canadian Parliament The 8th Canadian Parliament was in session from August 19, 1896 until October 9, 1900. The membership was set by the 1896 federal election on June 23, 1896, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1900 election.It was controlled by a...	1896–1900	James Klock James Klock James Bell Klock was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1900. He was a member of the Conservative Party....	Conservative
9th 9th Canadian Parliament The 9th Canadian Parliament was in session from February 6, 1901 until September 29, 1904. The membership was set by the 1900 federal election on November 7, 1900, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1904 election.It was controlled...	1900–1905	Charles McCool Charles McCool Charles Arthur McCool was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908. He was a member of the Liberal Party....	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
10th 10th Canadian Parliament The 10th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 11, 1905 until September 17, 1908. The membership was set by the 1904 federal election on November 3, 1904, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1908 election.It was controlled...	1905–1908
11th 11th Canadian Parliament The 11th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 20, 1909 until July 29, 1911. The membership was set by the 1908 federal election on October 26, 1908, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1911 election.It was controlled by a...	1908–1911	George Gordon George Gordon (Canadian politician) George Gordon was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1911. He was then appointed to the Senate, where he served until his death in 1942...	Conservative
12th 12th Canadian Parliament The 12th Canadian Parliament was in session from 15 November 1911 until 6 October 1917. The membership was set by the 1911 federal election on 21 September 1911, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1917 election. At 5 years, 10...	1911		Conservative
	1911–1917	Francis Cochrane Francis Cochrane Francis Cochrane, PC was a Canadian politician.-Municipal career:A prosperous hardware merchant in Sudbury, Ontario, he was the first president of the town's board of trade and later served as mayor of the town in 1897, 1898 and 1902 after winning a council seat in 1896.Along with local...	Conservative
13th 13th Canadian Parliament The 13th Canadian Parliament was in session from March 18, 1918 until October 4, 1921. The membership was set by the 1917 federal election on December 17, 1917, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1921 election.It was controlled by...	1917–1921	Charles Robert Harrison Charles Robert Harrison Charles Robert Harrison was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1921...	Unionist Unionist Party (Canada) The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War.... /Conservative
14th 14th Canadian Parliament The 14th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 March 1922 until 5 September 1925. The membership was set by the 1921 federal election on 6 December 1921, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1925 election.It was controlled by a...	1921–1925	Edmond Lapierre Edmond Lapierre Edmond Anthony Lapierre was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative....	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
15th 15th Canadian Parliament The 15th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 7, 1926 until July 2, 1926. The membership was set by the 1925 federal election on October 29, 1925, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1926 election.Initially, it was...	1925–1926
16th 16th Canadian Parliament The 16th Canadian Parliament was in session from December 9, 1926 until May 30, 1930. The membership was set by the 1926 federal election on September 14, 1926, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1930 election.It was controlled by a...	1926–1930
17th 17th Canadian Parliament The 17th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 8, 1930 until August 14, 1935. The membership was set by the 1930 federal election on July 28, 1930, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1935 election.It was controlled by a...	1930–1935	Raoul Hurtubise	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
18th 18th Canadian Parliament The 18th Canadian Parliament was in session from February 6, 1936 until January 25, 1940. The membership was set by the 1935 federal election on October 14, 1935, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1940 election.It was controlled...	1935–1940
19th 19th Canadian Parliament The 19th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 16, 1940 until April 16, 1945. The membership was set by the 1940 federal election on March 26, 1940, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1945 election.It was controlled by a...	1940–1945
20th 20th Canadian Parliament The 20th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 6, 1945 until April 30, 1949. The membership was set by the 1945 federal election on June 11, 1945, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1949 election.It was controlled by a...	1949–1953	Léoda Gauthier Léoda Gauthier Léoda Gauthier was a Canadian Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1958.Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, Gauthier represented three different ridings over the course of his career as the city of Sudbury grew in size and importance to warrant one, and then two, ridings of its own.In 1945,...	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
21st 21st Canadian Parliament The 21st Canadian Parliament was in session from September 15, 1949 until June 13, 1953. The membership was set by the 1949 federal election on June 27, 1949, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1953 election.It was controlled by a...	1949–1953	Jack Garland Jack Garland John Richard Garland, PC was a Canadian politician, who was a longtime member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Nipissing. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada....	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
22nd 22nd Canadian Parliament The 22nd Canadian Parliament was in session from November 12, 1953 until April 12, 1957. The membership was set by the 1953 federal election on August 10, 1953, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1957 election.It was controlled by...	1953–1957
23rd 23rd Canadian Parliament The 23rd Canadian Parliament was in session from October 14, 1957 until February 1, 1958. The membership was set by the 1957 federal election on June 10, 1957, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1958 election.It holds the...	1957–1958
24th 24th Canadian Parliament The 24th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 12, 1958 until April 19, 1962. The membership was set by the 1958 federal election on March 31, 1958, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1962 election.It was controlled by a...	1958–1962
25th 25th Canadian Parliament The 25th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 27, 1962 until February 6, 1963. The membership was set by the 1962 federal election on June 18, 1962, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1963 election.It was controlled by...	1962–1963
26th 26th Canadian Parliament The 26th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 16, 1963 until September 8, 1965. The membership was set by the 1963 federal election on April 8, 1963, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1965 election.It was controlled by a...	1963–1964
	1964–1965	Carl Legault Carl Legault Carl Legault is a former Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1964 to 1972...	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
27th 27th Canadian Parliament The 27th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 18, 1966 until April 23, 1968. The membership was set by the 1965 federal election on November 8, 1965, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1968 election.It was controlled by a...	1965–1968
28th 28th Canadian Parliament The 28th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 12, 1968 until September 1, 1972. The membership was set by the 1968 federal election on June 25, 1968, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1972 election.It was controlled by...	1968–1972
29th 29th Canadian Parliament The 29th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 4, 1973 until May 9, 1974. The membership was set by the 1972 federal election on October 30, 1972, and it was dissolved prior to the 1974 election....	1972–1974	Jean-Jacques Blais Jean-Jacques Blais Jean-Jacques Blais, PC, QC is a former Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1972 to 1984...	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
30th 30th Canadian Parliament The 30th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 30, 1974 until March 26, 1979. The membership was set by the 1974 election on July 8, 1974, and was only changed somewhat due to resignations and by-elections before it was dissolved prior to the 1979 election.It was controlled by a...	1974–1979
31st 31st Canadian Parliament The 31st Canadian Parliament was a briefly lived parliament in session from October 9 until December 14, 1979. The membership was set by the 1979 federal election on May 22, 1979, and it was dissolved after the minority government of Joe Clark failed to pass a Motion of Confidence on December 13,...	1979–1980
32nd 32nd Canadian Parliament The 32nd Canadian Parliament was in session from April 14, 1980 until July 9, 1984. The membership was set by the 1980 federal election on February 18, 1980, and it only changed slightly due to resignations and by-elections prior to being dissolved before the 1984 election.It was controlled by a...	1980–1984
33rd 33rd Canadian Parliament The 33rd Canadian Parliament was in session from November 5, 1984 until October 1, 1988. The membership was set by the 1984 federal election on September 4, 1984, and it only changed slightly due to resignations and by-elections prior to being dissolved before the 1988 election.It was controlled...	1984–1988	Moe Mantha Moe Mantha, Sr. Maurice William Mantha is a former Canadian athlete and politician.Mantha played minor league hockey for several teams in the AHL, the QHL and the WHL from 1954 to 1970...	Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Party of Canada The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
34th 34th Canadian Parliament The 34th Canadian Parliament was in session from December 12, 1988 until September 8, 1993. The membership was set by the 1988 federal election on November 21, 1988, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1993 election.It was...	1988–1993	Bob Wood	Liberal Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...
35th 35th Canadian Parliament The 35th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 17, 1994 until April 27, 1997. The membership was set by the 1993 federal election on October 25, 1993, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 1997 election.It was controlled by...	1993–1997
36th 36th Canadian Parliament The 36th Canadian Parliament was in session from September 22, 1997 until October 22, 2000. The membership was set by the 1997 federal election on June 2, 1997, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 2000 election.It was controlled by...	1997–2000
37th 37th Canadian Parliament The 37th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 29, 2001, until May 23, 2004. The membership was set by the 2000 federal election on November 27, 2000, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved prior to the 2004 election.It was controlled by...	2000–2004
Nipissing—Timiskaming Nipissing—Timiskaming Nipissing—Timiskaming is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004. The riding was formed by the amalgamation of the former Nipissing riding with the southeastern portion of the former Timiskaming—Cochrane... after 2004.

Electoral history

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|KLOCK, James Bell

James Klock

James Bell Klock was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1896 to 1900. He was a member of the Conservative Party....

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| CONMEE, James
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|MCCOOL, Charles Arthur

Charles McCool

Charles Arthur McCool was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908. He was a member of the Liberal Party....

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|MCCOOL, Charles Arthur

Charles McCool

Charles Arthur McCool was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908. He was a member of the Liberal Party....

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|GORDON, George

George Gordon (Canadian politician)

George Gordon was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1911. He was then appointed to the Senate, where he served until his death in 1942...

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|GORDON, George

George Gordon (Canadian politician)

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|MCCOOL, Charles Arthur

Charles McCool

Charles Arthur McCool was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1900 to 1908. He was a member of the Liberal Party....

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|GORDON, George

George Gordon (Canadian politician)

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|YOUNG, Alfred James
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On Mr. Gordon's resignation, 25 October 1911:

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|COCHRANE, Hon. Francis

Francis Cochrane

Francis Cochrane, PC was a Canadian politician.-Municipal career:A prosperous hardware merchant in Sudbury, Ontario, he was the first president of the town's board of trade and later served as mayor of the town in 1897, 1898 and 1902 after winning a council seat in 1896.Along with local...

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|HARRISON, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Harrison

Charles Robert Harrison was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1921...

|align="right"| 6,411
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|LAPIERRE, Edmond Anthony

Edmond Lapierre

Edmond Anthony Lapierre was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative....

|align="right"|6,367
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|LAPIERRE, Edmond Anthony

Edmond Lapierre

Edmond Anthony Lapierre was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative....

|align="right"|9,886
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|HARRISON, Charles Robert

Charles Robert Harrison

Charles Robert Harrison was a Canadian politician. He represented the riding of Nipissing in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1921...

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|LEVERT, Benoni
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|LAPIERRE, Edmond Anthony

Edmond Lapierre

Edmond Anthony Lapierre was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative....

|align="right"|9,128
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|FERGUSSON, John
|align="right"|9,031
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|LAPIERRE, Edmond Anthony

Edmond Lapierre

Edmond Anthony Lapierre was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative....

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|LABERGE, Joseph Alfred
|align="right"|8,963
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|HURTUBISE, Joseph Raoul
|align="right"|12,588
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|MOREL, Henri

Henri Morel

Henri Morel was an Ontario butcher and political figure. He represented Nipissing in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1908 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1930 as a Conservative member. His name also appears as Henry Morel....

|align="right"|10,437
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|HILL, Amos Tobias
|align="right"|531
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|HURTUBISE, Joseph Raoul
|align="right"|20,114
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|MCNAMARA, John Michael
|align="right"|7,991
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|LEVERT, Joseph
|align="right"|2,236
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|STEWART, Kelvin Alexander
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|HILL, Amos Tobias
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|HURTUBISE, Joseph Raoul
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|LAROCQUE, Onésime
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|GAUTHIER, Leoda

Léoda Gauthier

Léoda Gauthier was a Canadian Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1945 to 1958.Born in Copper Cliff, Ontario, Gauthier represented three different ridings over the course of his career as the city of Sudbury grew in size and importance to warrant one, and then two, ridings of its own.In 1945,...

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|LEVERT, J. Benonie
|align="right"|11,349
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|GEMMELL, Welland Stewart

Welland Gemmell

Welland Stewart Gemmell was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Sudbury in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 until his death in 1954....

|align="right"|10,437
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|CAMPEAU, Lionel
|align="right"|3,538
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|SMITH, Clarence
|align="right"|1,525
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|SHAW, John Loudon
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|GARLAND, John Richard

Jack Garland