Harold William Langille (January 18, 1944 – April 12, 2020) was a tree farmer, police officer and political figure in
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
, Canada. He represented
Colchester North in the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2006 as a
Progressive Conservative.
Born in 1944 in
Truro, Nova Scotia, Langille was educated at the Ontario Police College and the Ontario Provincial Police Academy.
He worked as a police officer in Truro and
Ontario
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.
After his retirement in 1994, he returned to Nova Scotia and owned and operated tree farms in
Colchester County
Colchester County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. With a population of 51,476 the county is the fourth largest in Nova Scotia. Colchester County is located in north central Nova Scotia.
The majority of the county is gover ...
.
Langille entered provincial politics in
1999
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, winning the Colchester North riding by more than 1300 votes. In the
2003 election, he was re-elected by more than 1100 votes. Langille did not reoffer in the
2006 election. He died of liver cancer on April 12, 2020.
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References
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1944 births
2020 deaths
People from Truro, Nova Scotia
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
20th-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian politicians
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