Simon-Napoléon Parent, KC (September 12, 1855 – September 7, 1920) was the 12th

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from October 3, 1900 to March 21, 1905, as well as serving as President of the

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and Railway Company.

Background

Parent was born in

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. He was a lawyer by profession, and his son, Georges Parent, was an MP in the

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and later a

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who served as

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Political career

Parent ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Saint-Sauveur in the 1890 election and won. He was re-elected in

1892 In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west. Events January * January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing imm ...

and

1897 Events January * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedit ...

. He resigned in 1897 when he was appointed to Félix-Gabriel Marchand’s Cabinet but was re-elected in the subsequent

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, as well as in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

and

1904 Events January * January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''. * January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system. * ...

. Marchand died in office on September 25, 1900, and Parent succeeded him. He won the 1900 election and the 1904 election and resigned in 1905 when 44 Liberal MLAs, led by

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and William Alexander Weir, pressured him to resign. Parent also served as mayor of

from 1894 to 1906.

Death

He died in

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in 1920. Simon-Napoléon Parent, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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References

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Background

Political career

Death

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