Gustave Évanturel Explained

Gustave Évanturel
Riding1:Prescott
Parliament1:Canadian
Predecessor1:Joseph Binette
Successor1:Louis-Mathias Auger
Term Start1:1925
Term End1:1926
Office2:Ontario MPP
Term Start2:1911
Term End2:1923
Predecessor2:Georges Pharand
Successor2:Edmond Proulx
Constituency2:Prescott
Party:Liberal
Birth Date:19 March 1879
Death Place:Notary

Gustave Évanturel (March 19, 1879  - February 9, 1934) was an Ontario notary and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1911 to 1923 as a Liberal and Independent Liberal and in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member in 1925.

He was born in Ottawa in 1879, the son of François-Eugène-Alfred Évanturel and Louisa Lee,[1] and educated at the Collège Bourget in Rigaud, Quebec and the Université Laval. In 1910, he married Marie Emilia Chevrier. He was a notary public based in Alfred[1] and president of a mutual life assurance company, L'Alliance Nationale. He also was employed in the Privy Council Department. Évanturel was a strong supporter of bilingual schools in the province.[2] He was elected to the House of Commons in 1925, but was unsuccessful in attempts at reelection in 1926 and 1929. He died in Alfred at the age of 54.[1] |- |Liberal|Élie-Oscar Bertrand|align="right"| 5,152 |Independent Liberal|Gustave Gustave Évanturel|align="right"| 3,562 |}

Notes and References

  1. Book: Johnson, J.K. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada.
  2. Web site: A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons ..., HW Charlesworth (1919) . 12 February 2007 . 29 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095438/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3853 . dead .