Maurice Boisvert
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name = Maurice Boisvert
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| constituency_MP = Nicolet—Yamaska
| parliament = Canadian
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| predecessor = Renaud Chapdelaine
| successor = Paul Comtois
| term_start = June 1949
| term_end = June 1957
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1897|2|18}}
| birth_place = Pierreville, Quebec, Canada
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1988|2|23|1897|2|18}}
| death_place =Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| nationality = Canadian
| party = Liberal
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| spouse=Pauline LaBel
(m. 21 April 1924){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8TgzAQAAIAAJ&q=%22b.+Pierreville%2C+P.Q%2C+18+Feb.+1897%22 |title=The Canadian Who's who - Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Arthur L. Tunnell - Google Books |year=1963 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-11-08}}
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Maurice Boisvert (18 February 1897 – 23 February 1988) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Liberal Party in the 1949 election to represent the riding of Nicolet—Yamaska defeating Progressive Conservative MP Renaud Chapdelaine who had won an upset by-election victory earlier that year. Boisvert was re-elected in 1953.
He was born in 1897, the son of Adelard and Laura (née Cartier) Boisvert. He attended Nicolet College and Laval University, receiving his B.A. cum laude in 1918 from the latter.
Boisvert died on 23 February 1988 at Ottawa. He was 91.Obituaries, Montreal Gazette, 24 February 1988
Archives
There is a Maurice Boisvert fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Archival reference number is R7644.
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External links
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Category:Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
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