Émile Fortin Explained

Émile Fortin
Birth Date:1878 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Lévis, Quebec, Canada
Death Place:Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Spouse:Marguerite Belleau
m. 5 June 1906
Jacqueline Belleau
(until his death)
Riding:Lévis
Term Start:July 1930
Term End:August 1935
Office2:Senator for De la Durantaye, Quebec
Appointed2:R. B. Bennett
Predecessor2:Jules Tessier
Successor2:Fernand Fafard
Term Start2:14 August 1935
Term End2:18 May 1936
Profession:Pharmacist, physician
Party:Conservative
Footnotes:[1]
Honorific Prefix:The Honourable

Émile Fortin (18 February 1878  - 18 May 1936) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Lévis, Quebec, and became a pharmacist and physician.

Fortin, a graduate of Université Laval, was a member of the Medical Society of Quebec.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Lévis riding in the 1930 general election after a previous unsuccessful campaign there in the 1926 federal election.

He was appointed to the Senate 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.[2]

References

  1. Book: Normandin, A.L. . Canadian Parliamentary Guide . 1932 .
  2. News: Senator E. Fortin dies in 59th year . . 19 May 1936 . 11 .