- Gustave Évanturel
Gustave Évanturel (
March 19 1879 –February 9 1934 ) was anOntario notary and political figure. He represented Prescott in theLegislative Assembly of Ontario from 1911 to 1923 as a Liberal and Independent Liberal and in theCanadian House of Commons as a Liberal member in 1925.He was born in
Ottawa in 1879, the son ofFrançois-Eugène-Alfred Évanturel , and educated at theCollège Bourget inRigaud, Quebec and theUniversité Laval . In 1910, he married Marie Emilia Chevrier. He was anotary public 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. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1925, but was unsuccessful in attempts at reelection in 1926 and 1929.External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=4117&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/members/members_all_detail.do?locale=en&ID=1128 Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario]
* [http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3853 "A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons ...", HW Charlesworth (1919)]
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