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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Stanislaus Francis Perry
| honorific_suffix = 
| image            = StanislausFPerry23.jpg
| caption          = Perry in July 1891
| office           = [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]] for [[West Prince]]
| term_start       = April 27, 1897
| term_end         = February 24, 1898
| predecessor      = [[James Colledge Pope]]
| successor        = [[Edward Hackett]]
| office1          = [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|MP]] for [[Prince County (electoral district)|Prince County]]
| term_start1      = January 22, 1874
| term_end1        = September 17, 1878
| predecessor1     = [[James Colledge Pope]]
| successor1       = [[Edward Hackett]]
| office2          = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island]] for [[1st Prince]]
| predecessor2     = ''District established''
| successor2       = [[Francis Gallant]]
| term_start2      = 1854
| term_end2        = 1875
| predecessor3     = [[Nicholas Conroy]]
| successor3       = ''Vacant''
| term_start3      = 1879
| term_end3        = 1887
| birth_name       = Stanislas-François Poirier
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1823|5|7}}
| birth_place      = [[Tignish]], [[Prince Edward Island]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1898|2|24|1823|5|7}}
| death_place      = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| nationality      = Canadian
| spouse           = {{marriage|Margaret Carroll|1847}}
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| relatives        =
| children         = 10
| residence        = 
| alma_mater       = 
| occupation       = Farmer
| profession       = Politician
| cabinet          = 
| committees       = 
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| signature        =
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'''Stanislaus Francis Perry''' (May 7, 1823 &ndash; February 24, 1898) was a Canadian farmer and politician in [[Prince Edward Island]].

==Early life==
He was born '''Stanislas-François Poirier''' in [[Tignish]], [[Prince Edward Island]], the son of Pierre Poirier and Marie-Blanche Gaudet. Poirier was educated in Tignish and then was educated in [[English language|English]] at [[St. Andrew's College (Charlottetown)|St. Andrew's College]] in [[Charlottetown]]. On his return to Tignish in 1843, he taught school. Poirier [[anglicisation|anglicize]]d his name around this time. In 1847, he married Margaret Carroll. He was named a [[justice of the peace]] in 1851.

==Political career==
In 1854, Perry left teaching, began farming to support his family and entered politics. As an Acadian, he supported the redistribution of land on the island from the landowners to the tenant farmers. In 1870, he supported a coalition conservative government because it supported grants to [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] schools. Perry was speaker in the provincial assembly from 1873 to 1874. Perry was initially opposed to [[Canadian Confederation|Confederation]] but ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1873 before being elected in 1874. He was also an unsuccessful federal candidate in 1878 and 1882. He was defeated in 1896 but won the subsequent by-election after the first election was declared invalid. Perry was a proponent of a tunnel to link the island to the mainland.

He represented [[1st Prince]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island]] from 1854 to 1875 and from 1879 to 1887 and, in the [[House of Commons of Canada]], represented [[Prince County (electoral district)|Prince County]] from 1874 to 1878 and from 1887 to 1896 and [[West Prince]] from 1897 to 1898 as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] member. Perry (Poirier) was the first [[Acadian]] to serve in both the provincial assembly and the House of Commons.

Perry helped organize the first and second Acadian national conventions in [[Memramcook, New Brunswick]] (1881) and [[Miscouche, Prince Edward Island]] (1884) although he boycotted the second event because he wanted the event to be held in Tignish.

==Death==
He died in office in Ottawa in 1898 and was buried in Tignish.

==Personal life==
He was the grandfather of Nova Scotia Premier [[Angus Lewis Macdonald]]<ref>[http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/CM_V2_Apps/ui/remWindow.php?remID=57366&remP=/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/hdcn-cm%2FAAQG%2F0001%2Ftext%2F&remEx=Highland+Connections%3A++Port+Hood%2C+the+First+World+War+and+the+Cape+Breton+Highlanders+Overseas&lg=English Highland Connections: Port Hood] Virtual Museum</ref> and is a direct ancestor of current PEI MLA and PEI Liberal Party interim leader [[Hal Perry (politician)|Hal Perry]].

== Electoral record ==
{{1874 Canadian federal election/Prince County}}
{{1878 Canadian federal election/Prince County}}
{{1882 Canadian federal election/Prince County}}
{{1887 Canadian federal election/Prince County}}
{{1891 Canadian federal election/Prince County}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{Cite DCB|6364}}
*{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=11486}}
*[http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/viewobject.php?section=false&Lang=1&tourID=VQ_P4_3_EN&seqNumber=5&carrousel=true Standardbearers of Acadian Identity, McCord Museum]

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