Ernest-Omer Gingras (18 February 1887 – 11 September 1983) was a
Liberal party member of the
House of Commons of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada.
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. He was born in
Saint-Camille, Quebec
Saint-Camille is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Les Sources Regional County Municipality. The township had a population of 529 in the Canada 2016 Census.
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and became a clerk and merchant by career. He was born in 1887, the son of François Gingras.
He served as mayor of
Marbleton, Quebec for 20 years. Gingras entered federal politics when he won the
Richmond—Wolfe
Richmond—Wolfe (also known as Richmond) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1997.
It was created as by the ''British North America Act'', 1867.
It was abolis ...
riding in the
1949 general election. He was re-elected for successive terms in
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
and
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
then defeated in
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
by
Florent Dubois of the
Progressive Conservative party.
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1887 births
1983 deaths
Canadian merchants
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Mayors of places in Quebec
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
People from Estrie
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