Louis-Pierre Cécile Explained

Louis-Pierre Cécile
Office1:Ontario MPP
Term Start1:1948
Term End1:1967
Predecessor1:Aurélien Bélanger
Successor1:Riding abolished
Constituency1:Prescott
Party:Progressive Conservative
Birth Date:15 January 1905
Birth Place:Tecumseh, Ontario
Death Date:[1]

Louis-Pierre Cécile (January 15, 1905 – February 19, 1995[2]) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Prescott in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1967 as a Progressive Conservative member.

He was born in Tecumseh, Ontario in 1905, the son of Arthur-Lewis Cécile, and studied at the Université de Montréal and Osgoode Hall. In 1941, he married Fabienne Gascon. He was chairman of the Secondary School Board for Hawkesbury. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the federal parliament in 1945. Cécile was Minister of Travel and Publicity in the provincial cabinet from 1949 to 1955 and Minister of Public Welfare from 1955 to 1966.

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  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=vDSva95sIKEC&pg=PA245 Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1995
  2. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=vDSva95sIKEC&dq=Louis-Pierre+Cécile+1995&pg=PA250. Obituaries 1995. 245. Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 1995. 2002. University of Toronto Press. 9780802036735 . David Leyton-Brown.