Oliver Robert Gould was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

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, Canada. He represented Assiniboia

Assiniboia (electoral district)

Assiniboia was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1908 to 1988. This riding was created in 1907 following the admission of Saskatchewan into the Canadian Confederation in 1905...

 in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1919 to 1925 as a United Farmers

Labour candidates and parties in Canada

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 and then Progressive Party

Progressive Party of Canada

The Progressive Party of Canada was a political party in Canada in the 1920s and 1930s. It was linked with the provincial United Farmers parties in several provinces and, in Manitoba, ran candidates and formed governments as the Progressive Party of Manitoba...

 member.

He was born in Pontypridd

Pontypridd

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, Wales

Wales

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, the son of John Gould and Mary Ann Pike, and came to Forest, Ontario

Forest, Lambton County, Ontario

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 with his family in 1881, moving to Oak Lake, Manitoba

Oak Lake, Manitoba

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 in the early 1890s. Gould settled on a farm near Manor, Saskatchewan

Manor, Saskatchewan

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, where he also worked as a carpenter. He served five years on the town council for Manor. Gould was first elected to the House of Commons as a United Farmers MP in an 1919 by-election held after John Gillanders Turriff

John Gillanders Turriff

John Gillanders Turriff was a Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Petit-Métis, Canada East, Turriff as a young man settled in Western Canada, first in Manitoba, where he established himself as a farmer, and subsequently in that part of the North-West Territories which corresponds to the modern...

 was named to the Senate. He was re-elected as a Progressive MP in the 1921 general election

Canadian federal election, 1921

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 but defeated when he ran for re-election in 1925 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1925

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. He was married three times; first to Sarah Elizabeth Hindmarch, then to Daisy Fern Malin and finally to Hazel Maxwell Reid.