Frederick William "Bill" Shaw (October 13, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was a Canadian politician from
Quebec
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.
Background
He was born on October 13, 1932 in
Montreal
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and was a dentist. He served in the
Canadian Army
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in the 1950s. He graduated as an oral surgeon from
McGill University
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in 1958.
Before he ran for office, he was a
Progressive Conservative activist. He co-authored ''Partition, The Price of Quebec's Independence'' in 1980. He moved to
Ontario
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in 2010 after retiring and died in
Port Perry
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Port Perry serves as the administrative and commerc ...
on May 26, 2018.
Provincial politics
Shaw unsuccessfully ran as a
Union Nationale candidate to the
National Assembly of Quebec
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in the
1970 election in the district of
Robert-Baldwin
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, finishing a distant third.
He was a leadership candidate to the party convention, held on May 22 and 23, 1976. He lost to
Rodrigue Biron
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.
Bilan du Siècle, 22 mai 1976 - Élection de Rodrigue Biron au poste de chef de l'Union nationale
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Shaw ran again for a seat to the legislature and won in the 1976 election in the district of Pointe-Claire
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, with 45% of the vote. By February 18, 1978, he sat as an Independent
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. He also briefly supported Les Démocrates
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in 1978.
He was defeated in the district of Jacques-Cartier
Jacques-Cartier is an electoral district in the West Island of Montreal, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is the only provincial electoral district in Quebec with an Anglophone majority. It notably includes th ...
as an Independent in the 1981 election and as an Equality Party candidate in the 1998 election.
Shaw was the leader of the ''Freedom of Choice Party'' until it ceased to exist in 1985.
Federal politics
Shaw ran as an independent candidate in the federal district of Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis
Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997.
This riding was created in 1987 from Lachine and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine East rid ...
in the 1993 federal election and as a Canadian Alliance
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candidate in the riding of Lac-Saint-Louis
Lac-Saint-Louis is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. Its population was 108,579 at the 2016 Canadian Census.
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in the 2000 election. Both times, he lost to the Liberal
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candidate Clifford Lincoln
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Lincoln was born in Mauritius to ...
, finishing in fifth place in 1993 and in third place in 2000.
References
External links
National Assembly biography
1932 births
2018 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian dentists
Equality Party (Quebec) politicians
Politicians from Montreal
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs
20th-century dentists
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