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unusual facts about Canadian Senate



Allan Gardens

The garden and the main part of the property were donated to the Toronto Horticultural Society by George William Allan, President of the Society, one-time Mayor of Toronto and long-time Senator in 1857.

Bert Brown

Bert Brown (born March 22, 1938) is a former Canadian senator and retired farmer and development consultant currently residing in Balzac, Alberta.

Canadian Red Ensign

Critics, including Liberal senators Marcel Prud'homme and Roméo Dallaire, attacked the move, saying the old flag belongs in a museum, not on a flagpole.

Jacques Demers

On August 27, 2009, he was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to fill the Canadian Senate seat vacated by Yoine Goldstein.

Jim Coutts

In 1981, Trudeau appointed Liberal MP Peter Stollery to the Senate so Coutts could run for the Canadian House of Commons in what was thought of as the safe Ontario riding of Spadina.

Jim Silye

In 2004, he ran in the Alberta Senate nominee election for a place in the Canadian Senate.

Joseph James Duffus

He was elected the Liberal Member of Parliament for Peterborough West in the 1935 federal election and was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1940 prior to the 1940 election in order to free his seat up for Roland Maxwell Glover, publisher of the Peterborough Examiner; Glover was defeated in the general election.

Marjory LeBreton

Marjory LeBreton, PC (born July 4, 1940) is a former Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate, a position of cabinet-rank; and past national chair of Mothers Against Drunk Driving in Canada.

Mary Anne Balsillie

Following Redwater MLA Nicholas Taylor's appointment to the Senate in 1996, Balsillie ran in the by-election for the Alberta Liberals.

Olive Lillian Irvine

A Progressive Conservative, she was appointed to the Canadian Senate on 14 January 1960 on the recommendation of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, and she represented the senatorial division of Lisgar, Manitoba until her death.

Wesley Stambaugh

Born in Melvin, Michigan United States, Wesley was appointed to the Canadian Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent on September 7, 1949 he served in the senate until June 8, 1965.


see also

Charles-Eusèbe Casgrain

His son Charles-Eugène later became a member of the Canadian Senate and his son Philippe-Baby was a member of the House of Commons.

Lemuel E. Prowse

His brother Benjamin Charles served as mayor of Charlottetown and in the Canadian Senate.

Lynch-Staunton

George Lynch-Staunton (1858–1940), lawyer and member of the Canadian Senate

Marjory

Marjory LeBreton (born 1940), Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate

Philippe Panet

His brother Louis later became a member of the Canadian Senate and his brother Charles was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.