Charles Allan Smart | |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Westmount |
Predecessor: | District created in 1912 |
Successor: | William Ross Bulloch |
Term Start: | 1912 |
Term End: | 1936 |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Council of Quebec for Inkerman |
Predecessor2: | George Bryson, Jr. |
Successor2: | Martin Fisher |
Term Start2: | May 18, 1937 |
Term End2: | June 4, 1937 |
Birth Date: | 23 March 1868 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Death Place: | Westmount, Quebec |
Party: | Conservative |
Branch: | Canadian Militia |
Serviceyears: | 1898-1919 |
Rank: | Brigadier General |
Unit: | 6th Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars |
Commands: | 13th Scottish Light Dragoons Eastern Townships Cavalry Brigade 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Brigade 15th Canadian Brigade |
Battles: | First World War |
Charles Allan Smart (March 23, 1868 - June 4, 1937) was a Canadian politician and a seven-term Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, on March 23, 1868. The son of Robert Smart, a shoemaker, originally from Aberdeen, and his wife Margaret Clark, from Arbroath, he was educated at the High School of Montreal. In 1881, he left school and became a clerk for with Alexander Buntin and Co., a stationery firm. In 1884, he moved to Tellier, Rothwell and Co., oil dealers, where he stayed for seven years.[1]
Smart was a city councillor in Westmount in 1910.
He successfully ran as a Conservative candidate in the provincial district of Westmount in the 1912 election. He was re-elected in the 1916, 1919, 1923, 1927, 1931 and 1935 elections. He did not run for re-election in 1936.
Smart was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1936, but the institution did not resume its activities until after he died.
He died on June 4, 1937.