Édouard-Charles St-Père

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| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Édouard-Charles St-Père

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| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1876|9|24}}

| birth_place=Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec, Canada

| death_date={{death date and age|1950|1|31|1876|9|24|df=yes}}

| death_place=Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Canada

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| party = Liberal

| office = Senator for De Lanaudière

| term_start = 9 February 1940

| term_end = 31 January 1950

| appointed = William Lyon Mackenzie King

| predecessor = Joseph Philippe Baby Casgrain

| successor = Sarto Fournier

| office2 = Member of Parliament for Hochelaga

| term_start2 = December 1921

| term_end2 = February 1940

| predecessor2 = Joseph-Edmond Lesage

| successor2 = Raymond Eudes

| spouse=1) Antoinette Collet
m. 13 May 1905 (d.)
2) Anna Gingras{{cite serial | title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide | first=A.L. | last=Normandin | origyear=1936| year=1940}}

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| occupation = journalist

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Édouard-Charles St-Père (24 September 1876 – 31 January 1950) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sainte-Mélanie, Quebec at Joliette County and became a journalist who was with the newspaper Le Canada for two decades.{{cite news | title=Senator St. Pere | work=The Globe and Mail | author=The Canadian Press | author-link=The Canadian Press | date=1 February 1950 | page=2 }}

He was first elected to Parliament at the Hochelaga riding in the 1921 general election then re-elected in 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1935. In 1940, St-Père was appointed to the Senate for the De Lanaudière, Quebec division and remained a Senator until his death on 31 January 1950 at his Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Quebec residence after ailing for a considerable time with an undisclosed condition.{{cite news | title=Le sénateur C.-E. Saint-Père est décédé hier | work=Le Devoir |trans-title=Senator C.-E. Saint-Père Died Yesterday |url=https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2781312 |language=French | author= | date=1 February 1950 | page=1 }}

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