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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
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| name = Louis-Mathias Auger
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| office = Mayor of [[Hawkesbury, Ontario]]
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| term_start = 1936
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| term_end1 = 1929
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'''Louis-Mathias Auger''' (April 3, 1902 – March 6, 1966) was an [[Ontario]] teacher and political figure. He represented [[Prescott (federal electoral district)|Prescott]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] member from 1926 to 1929.

He was born in [[Contrecoeur, Quebec]] in 1902, the son of Louis Auger, and moved to [[Hawkesbury, Ontario]] with his family in 1912. Auger had studied at the [[University of Ottawa]] and went on to teach there. He defeated [[Gustave Évanturel]] to win a seat in the House of Commons in 1926. During his term in office, he was articling with a lawyer in [[L'Orignal, Ontario|L'Original]] and studying law part-time at [[Osgoode Hall]]. He resigned his seat in 1929 after being accused of raping a young woman from his constituency who had come to see him in the House of Commons about possible employment in the public service. Auger was finally acquitted of the charge of rape but found guilty of seduction and was sentenced to two years in [[Kingston Penitentiary]], the maximum penalty for that crime, after five trials and two appeals over sixteen months.<ref name="Backhouse">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0r9byIWeG-0C&q=Auger | title=Essays in the History of Canadian Law: Volume X - A Tribute to Peter Oliver | publisher=University of Toronto Press, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History | author=Backhouse, Constance | author-link=Constance Backhouse | year=1981 | pages=33– | isbn=0-8020-9911-4 | chapter="Calculated to Reflect on the Dignity of Parliament": Rape in the House of Commons, Ottawa 1929 | editor=David H. Flaherty | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0r9byIWeG-0C&q=Auger}}</ref><ref name="Canadian Encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia | title=Auger, Louis Mathias | encyclopedia=[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] | access-date=September 14, 2019 | author=Jean Yves Pelletier | date=June 15, 2015 | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/louis-mathias-auger}}</ref>

He ran unsuccessfully as an independent Liberal in 1935. Auger served as mayor of Hawkesbury in 1936.

In 2006, [[Marguerite Andersen]] published a novel ''Doucement le bonheur (Gently happiness)'' ({{ISBN|2894232063}}) based on the events surrounding the trial.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://www.renaud-bray.com/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=764054&def=Doucement+le+bonheur%2cANDERSEN%2c+MARGUERITE%2c9782894232064 | title=Doucement le bonheur (Gently happiness) | publisher=[[Prise de parole]] | author=Andersen, Marguerite | author-link=Marguerite Andersen | year=2006 | location=Sudbury, ON | isbn=978-2-8942-3206-4 | via=[[Renaud-Bray]]}}</ref>
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==References==
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*''Histoire des Comtes Unis de Prescott et de Russell'', L. Brault (1963)

==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=7118}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20011016230535/http://www.lawsite.ca/51501/Sched501/Auger.htm ''Calculated to Reflect on the Dignity of Parliament'', C Backhouse]
*[http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4719 ''Lieux et monuments historiques du Nord de Montréal'', R. Fournier (1978)]

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