Louis Adelbert LeBourdais (June 26, 1888 – September 27, 1947) was a telegraph operator, life insurance agent and political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

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in the

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from 1937 to 1947 as a Liberal. He was born in 1888, the son of Adelbert LeBourdais and Eleanor Connick, and was educated in Clinton and

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. LeBourdais married Kate-Elizabeth Pughe on April 17, 1912 at Larkin, British Columbia (halfway between Vernon and Armstrong). He lived in Quesnel. LeBourdais had mining interests in the

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area. He was also an amateur historian. From 1941 to 1948, he was a member of a Liberal-Conservative coalition in the provincial assembly. LeBourdais died in office in 1947. LeBourdais Park in Quesnel was named after him.

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