Aristide Blais
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Aristide Blais Template:Post-nominals (October 18, 1875 – November 10, 1964) was a Canadian physician and Senator.
Early life
Blais was born on October 18, 1875, in Berthier, Quebec, to Narcisse Blais and Philomène Buteau.[1] He attended Laval University earning a Bachelor of Science and medical degree in 1899.[1][2] Blais did two years of post-graduate medical studies in Paris.[3] He married Antoinette Bolduc on April 9, 1903, and they had one daughter together. He later married Marie Moriarty and they also had one daughter together.[1] Early in his medical career, Blais partnered with French-Canadian physician and Senator Philippe Roy in practice.[3]
During the World War I Blais served as a captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, later promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and was appointed in charge of the No. 6 Casualty Clearing Hospital in Saint-Cloud, France.[1] During his time he also served with the 38th Battalion and the 11th Field Ambulance Corps.[3]
Political life
Blais was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1940 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King.[4] A Liberal, he represented the senatorial division of St. Albert, Alberta. Blais publicly noted his appointment to the Senate was a tribute to French Canadians in Alberta, and a fulfillment of former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's promise upon Alberta entering Confederation in 1905, that French Canadians in the province would always have a Senate representative.[3]
Blais served until his death on November 10, 1964, at 89 years of age, at Shaughnessy Military Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.[3]
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