Frank Broadstreet Carvell, (14 August 1862 – 9 August 1924) was a

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lawyer, businessman, and politician. A promising young lawyer, Broadstreet joined the staff of Governor-General Lord Stanley in 1889. He later served as Canada's first justice of the peace. Broadstreet would go on to serve as solicitor general of Canada, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, and minister of the northern territories. Carvell was born in

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. His father was a farmer descended from

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and his mother was an

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. He was educated locally and worked as a teacher. In 1890 he earned his law degree from

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and returned to Woodstock to practice law. He was elected to the county council and became involved in business with stock in the Woodstock Power Company and the Carleton Electric Company. He purchased the ''Carleton Sentinel'', a

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newspaper and was also the main shareholder for a time of the ''Carleton Observer''. In 1899 he was elected to the

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but resigned a year later to contest the federal seat of Carleton but lost by 255 votes to

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Frederick Harding Hale, a lumber merchant. He won the seat on his next attempt and was the

member of the

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for the New Brunswick riding from 1904 until 1917. He was a minor backbencher in the Liberal caucus and was passed over for appointment to Sir

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in favour of

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when a New Brunswick seat at the Cabinet table opened up due to the resignation of

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. Carvell was offered a seat on the

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in 1909 but turned it down. The Liberal government was defeated in the 1911 federal election and Carvell moved to the

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bench where he became prominent as a critic of

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, Borden's Militia Minister. He also became active in provincial politics, joining party organizers

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and Edward S. Carter as leading members of a powerful group of back-room Liberals known as the "Dark Lantern Brigade" who accused the provincial

government of

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of receiving kickbacks from the timber industry. The

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offered Carvell the leadership of the provincial party but he declined at Laurier's urging. Despite his criticism of the Borden government's prosecution of the war as well as its

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, Carvell broke with Laurier over the issue of

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opposing Laurier's call for a

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on the question. Carvell was approached by Borden to

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during the Conscription Crisis and join his government but Carvell initially refused only to change his mind and join the government of Sir

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on October 17, 1917 as

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in the new

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. He was re-elected in the 1917 federal election as a Liberal-Unionist MP for

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by acclamation. Following the war Carvell wished to rejoin the Liberals but was rejected by his former party. Instead, he retired from politics in 1919 upon being appointed Chairman of the Board of Railway Commissioners.History of Federal Ridings since 1867: Victoria-Carleton
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