Jean Roy

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name=Jean Robert Roy

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birth_date=12 November 1923
birth_place=Timmins, Ontario
death_date=death date and age|1996|12|28|1923|11|12
death_place=Timmins, Ontario
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riding=Timmins
term_start=June 1968
term_end=March 1979
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profession=businessman, contractor, quantity surveyor
party=Liberal
party colour=Liberal Party of Canada
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Jean Robert Roy (12 November 1923 - 28 December 1996) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Timmins, Ontario and became a businessman, contractor and quantity surveyor by career.

Roy, a Franco-Ontarian, studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario before working in accounting, then in the construction industry.

He was first elected at the Timmins riding inthe 1968 general election. Roy was re-elected there in the 1972 and 1974 federal elections, and after completing his term in the 30th Parliament he left federal politics due to reported health concerns.cite web | url=http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/the_media/clips/6299/ | accessdate=2008-08-02 | date=19 April 1970 | title=The price of being Canadian | work=Sunday Magazine | publisher=CBC Radio | authors=Earle, Tom; Mason, Ken ] cite web | url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=2332663&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=35&Ses=2#THELATEJEAN-ROBERTROY | work=Hansard | title=Statements By Members | accessdate=2008-08-02 | date=5 February 1997 | publisher=Parliament of Canada ]

After this, he was President of the Standards Council of Canada and served on the International Joint Commission regarding the Great Lakes.

Roy died suddenly at his home in Timmins on 28 December 1996, leaving a daugher, a son and his wife Georgette Clément (m. 1947).

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