Edmond Lapierre

Edmond Anthony Lapierre
Member of Parliament for Nipissing
In office 1921–1930
Preceded by	Charles Robert Harrison
Succeeded by	Raoul Hurtubise
MPP for Sudbury
In office 1934–1937
Preceded by	Charles McCrea
Succeeded by	James Cooper
Personal details
Born	25 January 1866 (1866-01-25) Montreal, Canada East
Died	20 June 1960(1960-06-20) (aged 94)
Party	Liberal Party of Canada Ontario Liberal Party

Edmond Anthony Lapierre (25 January 1866 – 20 June 1960) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Montreal and became a sales representative.

Lapierre attended St. Mary's Academy in Montreal. He worked with Greenshields in that city for 18 years. Moving to northern Ontario, he became a member of Sudbury's Board of Trade and was a director of the Mattawa Fur Company, and served on various associations.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Nipissing riding in the 1921 general election after an unsuccessful campaign as a Laurier Liberal there in the 1917 election. He became the first French-speaking representative at the federal level from Northern Ontario. Lapierre was re-elected in 1925 over Conservative candidate John Ferguson, and in 1926 over Conservative candidate and former Sudbury mayor Alfred Laberge. He left federal politics at the end of his term in the 16th Canadian Parliament and did not seek another term in the 1930 election. He was subsequently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the provincial Liberals from 1934 to 1937.

External links

• Edmond Lapierre – Parliament of Canada biography