Charles-Édouard Ferland (2 March 1892 – 8 January 1974) was a Canadian jurist and Liberal member of the

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and

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. He was born in

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in Joliette County and became a lawyer by career. Ferland attended seminary at Joliette then the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

where he received

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, Ph.L and LL.L degrees. He was first elected to Parliament at the

Joliette Joliette () is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of G ...

riding in a by-election on 17 December 1928 then re-elected there in the 1930 general election. When riding boundaries were changed in 1933, Ferland sought re-election at the new

Joliette—l'Assomption—Montcalm Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm () was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968. This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Jol ...

riding and won that seat in the 1935 election and re-elected there in

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. After completing that term, he was appointed in 1945 to the

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and remained in that post until April 1951 when he resigned to accept a position as a

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on the

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.Senatorial Resignations
, Parliament of Canada website

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* 1892 births 1974 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Canadian senators from Quebec Liberal Party of Canada senators Lawyers in Quebec Politicians from Lanaudière Université de Montréal alumni Judges in Quebec 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 20th-century members of the Senate of Canada {{Quebec-senator-stub