Yves Forest, (25 June 1921 – 18 July 2019) 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 a lawyer by career.
Born in
Sherbrooke,
Quebec, Forest attended school at Saint-Charles Seminary in Sherbrooke, then earned a
Bachelor of Arts and
Bachelor of Laws at
Université de Montréal.
He was first elected at the
Stanstead riding in
the
1963 general election then re-elected there in the
1965 election. In the
1968 election, he was elected to another Parliamentary term at
Missisquoi riding. Forest left federal politics when he was defeated in the
1972 federal election at
Brome—Missisquoi.
Since January 2004, Forest became a director of the Historical Society of Magog and was honoured for his work in November 2009. He died in July 2019 at the age of 98.
L’ancien député Yves Forest s’éteint à 98 ans
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1921 births
2019 deaths
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Politicians from Sherbrooke
Lawyers in Quebec
Canadian King's Counsel
French Quebecers
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