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Victor Quelch

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Quelch died of pneumonia in September 1975 but, due to an oversight, no tribute was paid to him as was custom with deceased former members from the Canadian House of Commons. Twenty-four years later, Member of Parliament
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paid tribute to the memory of Quelch during the Statements by Members period on December 15, 1999. Quelch's great-granddaughter was working for Chatters at the time and she wrote the tribute read by Chatters.
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to serve as one of six members from all parties as a Parliamentary adviser to the Canadian staff to the United Nations Assembly.
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from 1914 to 1918. During his distinguished military career, he achieved the rank of Captain and was awarded the prestigious
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and two other candidates in a landslide victory. Quelch stood for re-election for a second term in office in the
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by a much more comfortable margin, and was re-elected to a fourth term in the
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candidate Arthur Day, whom he had previously faced in 1935.
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20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta
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He was re-elected to his fifth term in office in the
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Acadia
Robert Gardiner
Jack Horner
Georgetown
British Guiana
Kamloops, British Columbia
Social Credit Party of Canada
Georgetown
British Guiana
Fulneck School
West Yorkshire
Canadian Expeditionary Force
World War I
Military Cross
1935 Canadian federal election
Social Credit Party of Canada
Acadia
Alberta
Robert Gardiner
1940 Canadian federal election
Liberal
1945 Canadian federal election
1949 Canadian federal election
Louis St. Laurent
1953 Canadian federal election
1957 Canadian federal election
House of Commons of Canada
David Chatters
Who's Who in Federal Politics in Alberta

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