Émile Fortin (18 February 1878 – 18 May 1936) was a

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member of the

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. He was born in Lévis, Quebec, and became a pharmacist and physician. Fortin, a graduate of

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, was a member of the Medical Society of Quebec. He was first elected to Parliament at the

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riding in the 1930 general election after a previous unsuccessful campaign there in the 1926 federal election. He was appointed to the

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for the De la Durantaye, Quebec, division on 14 August 1935 but remained in that role for less than a year, until his death at a Quebec City hospital on 18 May 1936. He had been ill with pneumonia since that March and his condition worsened with a subsequent heart attack.

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