Gustave Roy

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name=Gustave Roy

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| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1907|4|21}}

| birth_place=Cap-Chat, Quebec

| death_date={{dda|df=y|1982|1|5|1907|4|21}}

| death_place=Mont-Laurier, Quebec

| spouse=Georgette Dupuis
(m. 25 October 1937)

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| riding=Labelle

| predecessor=Henri Courtemanche

| successor=Henri Courtemanche

| term_start=August 1953

| term_end=June 1957

| profession=physician, surgeon

| party=Liberal

| footnotes={{cite book | title=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide | orig-year=1954 |year=1956 | first=Pierre G. | last=Normandin }}

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Gustave Roy (21 April 1907 – 5 January 1982) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Cap-Chat, Quebec, he was a physician and surgeon by career.{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=14959|nolist=yes}}

The son of Gustave Roy and Vitaline Côté,{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867–1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}} Roy was educated at Rimouski Seminary, then at Université Laval where he received his medical degree. He set up practise in Mont-Laurier. Roy was also president and director for L'Écho de la Lièvre.

In 1937, a lumberman whose leg had been fractured was dissatisfied with Roy's treatment and attempted to shoot the doctor; his gun failed to discharge and the dissatisfied client was arrested.{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882853,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125023722/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882853,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 January 2012 |date=25 October 1937 |title=Miscellany |newspaper=Time |access-date=25 September 2009}}

He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1952. He was first elected at the Labelle riding in the 1953 general election, unseating Progressive Conservative party incumbent Henri Courtemanche. After serving his only term, the 22nd Canadian Parliament, Roy was defeated by Courtemanche in the 1957 election. He died in Mont-Laurier in 1982.{{Cite book|last = Roy|first = Jean-Guy|title = Families Roy|publisher = Société généalogique du K.R.T.|year = 1998|pages = 187|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tpVpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Gustave+Roy+n.+21+avr+1907%22|isbn = 2-9804493-1-8}}