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Ernest Lapointe

Ernest Lapointe PC MP (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 W. L. Mackenzie King, playing an important role on issues relating to legal affairs, Quebec and French-speaking Canada.

For the ship, see CCGS Ernest Lapointe.

The Right Honourable
Ernest Lapointe
PC MP

W. L. Mackenzie King

George Reginald Geary

Joseph-Enoil Michaud (acting)

W. L. Mackenzie King

Esioff-Léon Patenaude

Hugh Guthrie

W. L. Mackenzie King

Lomer Gouin

Hugh Guthrie (acting)

W. L. Mackenzie King

Charles Murphy (Acting)

George Halsey Perley

W. L. Mackenzie King

Fernand Rinfret

Pierre-François Casgrain

Wilfrid Laurier

Louis St. Laurent

Henry George Carroll

Charles-Adolphe Stein

(1876-10-06)October 6, 1876
Saint-Éloi, Quebec, Canada

November 26, 1941(1941-11-26) (aged 65)

Liberal

Emma Pratte
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(m. 1904)​

Arthur-Joseph Lapointe (nephew)

Hugues Lapointe

Laval University

Lawyer

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Education, early career[edit]

Lapointe earned his law degree from Laval University. He was called to the bar in 1898 and practiced law in Rivière-du-Loup and Quebec City.[1]

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Archives[edit]

There is an Ernest Lapointe fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[4]

Enters politics[edit]

Lapointe was elected by acclamation to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Kamouraska as a Liberal through a by-election on February 12, 1904. Lapointe was later re-elected in the 1904, 1908, 1911, and 1917 federal elections.[1]


Lapointe resigned his seat in 1919 and successfully ran in the Quebec East seat vacated by former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, who died.[1]

Death[edit]

Lapointe died in office in 1941, in the midst of the war. King decided to appoint the reluctant Quebec leading lawyer Louis St. Laurent to the cabinet as the new minister of justice.[1]


Lapointe's son, Hugues Lapointe, served as a member of parliament from 1940 to 1957 and lieutenant governor of Quebec from 1966 to 1978.

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Betcherman, Lita-Rose. Ernest Lapointe: Mackenzie King's Great Quebec Lieutenant (2002). 435 pp.

MacFarlane, John. Ernest Lapointe and Quebec's influence on Canadian foreign policy (U of Toronto Press, 1999)

. "Mackenzie King and French Canada." Journal of Canadian Studies 11.1 (1976): 3+

Neatby, H. Blair

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Biography from Library and Archives Canada

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Canada's First Century

Ernest Lapointe – Parliament of Canada biography

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