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Mackenzie King</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Esioff-L%C3%A9on_Patenaude" title="Esioff-Léon Patenaude">Esioff-Léon Patenaude</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Guthrie" title="Hugh Guthrie">Hugh Guthrie</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 30, 1924 – June 28, 1926<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Acting: January 4, 1924 – January 29, 1924</span></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">W. L. Mackenzie King</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lomer_Gouin" title="Lomer Gouin">Lomer Gouin</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Hugh Guthrie (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Canada" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State of Canada">Secretary of State of Canada</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 24, 1926 – June 28, 1926 (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">W. L. Mackenzie King</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Murphy_(Canadian_politician)" title="Charles Murphy (Canadian politician)">Charles Murphy</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Acting)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Halsey_Perley" title="George Halsey Perley">George Halsey Perley</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />July 26, 1939 – May 8, 1940 (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data">W. L. Mackenzie King</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fernand_Rinfret" title="Fernand Rinfret">Fernand Rinfret</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Casgrain" title="Pierre-François Casgrain">Pierre-François Casgrain</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Canada)" title="Member of Parliament (Canada)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Quebec_East" title="Quebec East">Quebec East</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />October 27, 1919 – November 26, 1941</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier" title="Wilfrid Laurier">Wilfrid Laurier</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Louis_St._Laurent" title="Louis St. Laurent">Louis St. Laurent</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Kamouraska_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Kamouraska (federal electoral district)">Kamouraska</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />February 12, 1904 – October 14, 1919</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Henry_George_Carroll" title="Henry George Carroll">Henry George Carroll</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles-Adolphe_Stein" title="Charles-Adolphe Stein">Charles-Adolphe Stein</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1876-10-06</span>)</span>October 6, 1876<br /><a href="/wiki/Saint-%C3%89loi,_Quebec" title="Saint-Éloi, Quebec">Saint-Éloi, Quebec</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">November 26, 1941<span style="display:none">(1941-11-26)</span> (aged 65)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Emma Pratte</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1904)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arthur-Joseph_Lapointe" title="Arthur-Joseph Lapointe">Arthur-Joseph Lapointe</a> (nephew)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Hugues_Lapointe" title="Hugues Lapointe">Hugues Lapointe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Laval_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Laval University">Laval University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">Lawyer</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ernest Lapointe</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Privy_Council_for_Canada" title="King's Privy Council for Canada">PC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Canada)" title="Member of Parliament (Canada)">MP</a></span></span> (October 6, 1876 – November 26, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. A member of Parliament from Quebec City, he was a senior minister in the government of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/W._L._Mackenzie_King" class="mw-redirect" title="W. L. Mackenzie King">W. L. Mackenzie King</a>, playing an important role on issues relating to legal affairs, Quebec and French-speaking Canada. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education,_early_career"><span id="Education.2C_early_career"></span>Education, early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education, early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapointe earned his law degree from <a href="/wiki/Laval_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Laval University">Laval University</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/Called_to_the_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Called to the bar">called to the bar</a> in 1898 and practiced law in <a href="/wiki/Rivi%C3%A8re-du-Loup" title="Rivière-du-Loup">Rivière-du-Loup</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quebec_City" title="Quebec City">Quebec City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Enters_politics">Enters politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Enters politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapointe was elected by acclamation to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_Canada" title="House of Commons of Canada">House of Commons of Canada</a> for the riding of <a href="/wiki/Kamouraska_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Kamouraska (federal electoral district)">Kamouraska</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> through a <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-election</a> on February 12, 1904. Lapointe was later re-elected in the <a href="/wiki/1904_Canadian_federal_election" title="1904 Canadian federal election">1904</a>, <a href="/wiki/1908_Canadian_federal_election" title="1908 Canadian federal election">1908</a>, <a href="/wiki/1911_Canadian_federal_election" title="1911 Canadian federal election">1911</a>, and <a href="/wiki/1904_Canadian_federal_election" title="1904 Canadian federal election">1917</a> federal elections.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lapointe resigned his seat in 1919 and successfully ran in the <a href="/wiki/Quebec_East" title="Quebec East">Quebec East</a> seat vacated by former <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada" title="Prime Minister of Canada">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier" title="Wilfrid Laurier">Wilfrid Laurier</a>, who died.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="King's_cabinet_minister_and_Quebec_lieutenant"><span id="King.27s_cabinet_minister_and_Quebec_lieutenant"></span>King's cabinet minister and Quebec lieutenant</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: King's cabinet minister and Quebec lieutenant"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Distinguished_Canadians_received_by_President_Coolidge_at_White_House._Interesting_callers_at_the_White_House_today_were_the_Minister_of_Justice_of_Canada_Hon._Ernest_Lapointe_(left)_and_the_LCCN2016889115_(restored).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe with Canadian Ambassador to the United States Vincent Massey, and Quebec Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau at the White House in 1927." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Distinguished_Canadians_received_by_President_Coolidge_at_White_House._Interesting_callers_at_the_White_House_today_were_the_Minister_of_Justice_of_Canada_Hon._Ernest_Lapointe_%28left%29_and_the_LCCN2016889115_%28restored%29.png/220px-thumbnail.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Distinguished_Canadians_received_by_President_Coolidge_at_White_House._Interesting_callers_at_the_White_House_today_were_the_Minister_of_Justice_of_Canada_Hon._Ernest_Lapointe_%28left%29_and_the_LCCN2016889115_%28restored%29.png/330px-thumbnail.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Distinguished_Canadians_received_by_President_Coolidge_at_White_House._Interesting_callers_at_the_White_House_today_were_the_Minister_of_Justice_of_Canada_Hon._Ernest_Lapointe_%28left%29_and_the_LCCN2016889115_%28restored%29.png/440px-thumbnail.png 2x" data-file-width="8852" data-file-height="7176" /></a><figcaption>Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe with Canadian Ambassador to the United States <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Massey" title="Vincent Massey">Vincent Massey</a>, and Quebec Premier <a href="/wiki/Louis-Alexandre_Taschereau" title="Louis-Alexandre Taschereau">Louis-Alexandre Taschereau</a> at the White House in 1927.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1921, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King" title="William Lyon Mackenzie King">William Lyon Mackenzie King</a> appointed Lapointe to his cabinet as <a href="/wiki/Ministers_of_Fisheries,_Oceans_and_the_Canadian_Coast_Guard" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministers of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard">minister of marine and fisheries</a>. During his tenure as minister, Lapointe reduced tariffs. In 1924, Lapointe became <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Justice_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Justice (Canada)">minister of justice</a>, and served in that position until the Liberals' <a href="/wiki/1930_Canadian_federal_election" title="1930 Canadian federal election">defeat at the polls in 1930</a>. However, the Liberals under King returned back to power in the <a href="/wiki/1935_Canadian_federal_election" title="1935 Canadian federal election">1935 federal election</a>, and Lapointe once again regained his old post. From 1924 to 1930 as justice minister, Lapointe expressed his support for King's commitment to Canadian autonomy and accompanied him at the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Conference_of_1926" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial Conference of 1926">Imperial Conference of 1926</a>. Lapointe also chaired the Canadian delegation in the discussions that led to the <a href="/wiki/Statute_of_Westminster,_1931" class="mw-redirect" title="Statute of Westminster, 1931">Statute of Westminster</a> in 1931.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ErnestLapointe.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/ErnestLapointe.jpg" decoding="async" width="163" height="230" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="163" data-file-height="230" /></a><figcaption>Lapointe, 1936</figcaption></figure> <p>Lapointe served as King's <a href="/wiki/Quebec_lieutenant" title="Quebec lieutenant">Quebec lieutenant</a> and was one of the most important ministers in Cabinet. King did not speak French; he relied on Lapointe to handle important matters in the province. Lapointe gave a strong Quebecker voice to the cabinet decision, something that had not existed since the defeat of Laurier in 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the late 1930s, Lapointe recommended that the federal Cabinet <a href="/wiki/Disallowance_and_reservation_in_Canada" title="Disallowance and reservation in Canada">disallow</a> several Acts passed by the Alberta <a href="/wiki/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Credit Party of Alberta">Social Credit</a> government of <a href="/wiki/William_Aberhart" title="William Aberhart">William Aberhart</a>, arguing that Aberhart was attempting to grab too much power and encroach upon federal jurisdiction. </p><p>Lapointe did not recommend <a href="/wiki/Disallowance_and_reservation_in_Canada" title="Disallowance and reservation in Canada">disallowance</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Padlock_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Padlock Act">Padlock Act</a> passed by the Quebec government of <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Duplessis" title="Maurice Duplessis">Maurice Duplessis</a>, fearing that doing so would only aid the <a href="/wiki/Union_Nationale_(Quebec)" title="Union Nationale (Quebec)">Union Nationale</a> government.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dc_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dc-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conscription_issue">Conscription issue</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Conscription issue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapointe helped draft Mackenzie King's policy against <a href="/wiki/Conscription" title="Conscription">conscription</a> for overseas service in 1939, and his campaigning helped defeat the Duplessis provincial government in 1939. During the <a href="/wiki/1939_Quebec_general_election" title="1939 Quebec general election">1939 provincial election</a>, Lapointe made many speeches in the province of Quebec, in which he argued that if Duplessis was to be re-elected, every French Canadian minister would resign from the federal cabinet, leaving it without a francophone voice. Having been a Liberal MP during the 1917 conscription crisis, Lapointe knew how much a new crisis like the last one would destroy the national unity that Mackenzie King had tried to build since 1921. Duplessis lost in a landslide to <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberal Party of Quebec">Liberal Party of Quebec</a> leader <a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%A9lard_Godbout" title="Adélard Godbout">Adélard Godbout</a>, who sought to co-operate with the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lapointe died in office in 1941, in the midst of the war. King decided to appoint the reluctant Quebec leading lawyer <a href="/wiki/Louis_St._Laurent" title="Louis St. Laurent">Louis St. Laurent</a> to the cabinet as the new minister of justice.<sup id="cite_ref-LapointeBio_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LapointeBio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lapointe's son, <a href="/wiki/Hugues_Lapointe" title="Hugues Lapointe">Hugues Lapointe</a>, served as a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Canada)" title="Member of Parliament (Canada)">member of parliament</a> from 1940 to 1957 and <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_governor_of_Quebec" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant governor of Quebec">lieutenant governor of Quebec</a> from 1966 to 1978. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Betcherman, Lita-Rose. <i>Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant</i> (2002). 435 pp.</li> <li>MacFarlane, John. <i>Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's influence on Canadian foreign policy</i> (U of Toronto Press, 1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neatby,_H._Blair" class="mw-redirect" title="Neatby, H. Blair">Neatby, H. Blair</a>. "Mackenzie King and French Canada." <i>Journal of Canadian Studies</i> 11.1 (1976): 3+</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archives">Archives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is an Ernest Lapointe <a href="/wiki/Fonds" title="Fonds">fonds</a> at <a href="/wiki/Library_and_Archives_Canada" title="Library and Archives Canada">Library and Archives Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_record">Electoral record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Electoral record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <td align="center" colspan="6"><b>By-election on 27 October 1919</b> <p>On Laurier's death, 17 February 1919 </p> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <th colspan="2" style="width: 220px">Party </th> <th style="width: 185px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 60px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Laurier_Liberals" title="Laurier Liberals">Opposition (Laurier Liberals)</a></td> <td>Ernest Lapointe</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,222 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #87CEFA; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Parti_nationaliste_du_Qu%C3%A9bec" title="Parti nationaliste du Québec">Parti nationaliste</a></td> <td>François-Xavier Galibois</td> <td style="text-align:right;">2,283 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ernest Lapointe</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,005 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" title="Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)">Conservative</a></td> <td>Rodolphe-Alfred Drapeau</td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,424 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <td align="center" colspan="6"><b>By-election on 19 January 1922</b> <p>On Lapointe's acceptance of an office of emolument<br />under the Crown, 3 January 1922 </p> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <th colspan="2" style="width: 220px">Party </th> <th style="width: 185px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 60px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td>Ernest Lapointe</td> <td style="text-align:right;">acclaimed </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1925_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template:1925 Canadian federal election/Quebec East"><abbr title="View this 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title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ernest Lapointe</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,193 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" title="Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)">Conservative</a></td> <td>Pierre Audet</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,366 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1926_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template:1926 Canadian federal election/Quebec East"><abbr title="View this 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title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Ernest Lapointe</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,370 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" title="Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)">Conservative</a></td> <td>Pierre Audet</td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,438 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse;"> <tbody><tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <td align="center" colspan="6"><b>By-election on 2 November 1926</b> <p>On Lapointe's acceptance of an office of emolument<br />under the Crown, 5 October 1926 </p> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#E9E9E9"> <th colspan="2" style="width: 220px">Party </th> <th style="width: 185px">Candidate </th> <th style="width: 60px">Votes </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td>Ernest Lapointe</td> <td style="text-align:right;">acclaimed </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1930_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template:1930 Canadian federal election/Quebec East"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1930_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template talk:1930 Canadian federal 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style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" title="Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)">Conservative</a></td> <td>Alleyn Taschereau</td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,642 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1935_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template:1935 Canadian federal election/Quebec East"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1935_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template talk:1935 Canadian 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style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada_(1867%E2%80%931942)" title="Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)">Conservative</a></td> <td>Edgar Champoux</td> <td style="text-align:right;">9,611 </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:573px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1940_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template:1940 Canadian federal election/Quebec East"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1940_Canadian_federal_election/Quebec_East" title="Template talk:1940 Canadian federal 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style="color:inherit;background:#DCDCDC; width: 16px">  </td> <td>Independent Nationalist </td> <td>Paul Bouchard </td> <td align="right">12,302 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Conscription_Crisis_of_1944" title="Conscription Crisis of 1944">Conscription Crisis of 1944</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 23,</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Canadian+Encyclopedia&rft.atitle=Ernest+Lapointe&rft.date=2008-02-13&rft.aulast=Neatby&rft.aufirst=H.+Blair&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca%2Fen%2Farticle%2Fernest-lapointe&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErnest+Lapointe" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Conrad Black, <i>Rise to Greatness: The history of Canada from the Vikings to the present </i> (2014) p 520</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-dc-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-dc_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFCreighton1970">Creighton 1970</a>, p. 225</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=99056&lang=eng">"Ernest Lapointe fonds, Library and Archives Canada"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Ernest+Lapointe+fonds%2C+Library+and+Archives+Canada&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcentral.bac-lac.gc.ca%2F.redirect%3Fapp%3Dfonandcol%26id%3D99056%26lang%3Deng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AErnest+Lapointe" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Lapointe&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCreighton1970" class="citation book cs1">Creighton, Donald (1970). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/canadasfirstcent0000crei"><i>Canada's First Century</i></a></span>. 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title="James Sutherland (Canadian politician)">Sutherland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Pr%C3%A9fontaine" title="Raymond Préfontaine">Préfontaine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier" title="Wilfrid Laurier">Laurier</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis-Philippe_Brodeur" title="Louis-Philippe Brodeur">Brodeur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodolphe_Lemieux" title="Rodolphe Lemieux">Lemieux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Douglas_Hazen" class="mw-redirect" title="John Douglas Hazen">Hazen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Ballantyne" title="Charles Ballantyne">Ballantyne</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Lapointe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Cardin" title="Arthur Cardin">Cardin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Anderson_Black" title="William Anderson Black">Black</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esioff-L%C3%A9on_Patenaude" title="Esioff-Léon Patenaude">Patenaude</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Cardin" title="Arthur Cardin">Cardin</a> (acting)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fisheries (1930–69)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Macmillan" title="Cyrus Macmillan">Macmillan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Nelson_Rhodes" title="Edgar Nelson Rhodes">Rhodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Duranleau" title="Alfred Duranleau">Duranleau</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grote_Stirling" title="Grote Stirling">Stirling</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Gordon_Ernst" title="William Gordon Ernst">Ernst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph-Enoil_Michaud" title="Joseph-Enoil Michaud">Michaud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bertrand" title="Ernest Bertrand">Bertrand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedley_Francis_Gregory_Bridges" title="Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges">Bridges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bertrand" title="Ernest 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politician)">Davis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Environment (1971–76)<sup>2</sup></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Davis_(Canadian_politician)" title="Jack Davis (Canadian politician)">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Sauv%C3%A9" title="Jeanne Sauvé">Sauvé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_LeBlanc" title="Roméo LeBlanc">R. LeBlanc</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Marchand" title="Jean Marchand">Marchand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_LeBlanc" title="Roméo LeBlanc">R. LeBlanc</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">State (fisheries) (1974–76)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_LeBlanc" title="Roméo LeBlanc">R. LeBlanc</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fisheries and the environment (1976–79)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o_LeBlanc" title="Roméo LeBlanc">R. 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The minister of marine was a precursor to the minister of transport.<br /><sup>2</sup>From 1971 to 1976, the minister of the environment was also the minister of fisheries.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Secretaries_of_state_for_Canada407" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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The position of Secretary of State for Canada was not legally eliminated until 1996 when its remaining responsibilities were assigned to other cabinet positions and departments, particularly the newly created position of <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Canadian_Heritage" title="Minister of Canadian Heritage">Minister of Canadian Heritage</a>.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Deans_of_the_House_of_Commons_of_Canada74" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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