Am I reading that right ?!

by Maurice Y. Michaud (he/him)

So far, this site contains 33,939 links to 30,861 online documents, all leading to more information on nearly a quarter of the 68,547 names that appear in this database. I have read all of those documents — not always every word, but many times I did because I let myself get dragged in by those people's stories even though I had never heard of them before I started this project.

That is how I came to develop the themes that you see throughout this website, like "youngest and oldest," "died in office," and so on. However, some of the stories offered nuggets that were occasionally just intriguing or funny (literally or in a dark humour manner) and sometimes downright appalling or outrageous. I mean, how is it that I had never heard, before embarking on this project, about that Social Credit MLA in Alberta who committed one of that province's worst mass killing back in the 1950s?

This list is subjective and I will keep adding to it as I come across those factoids again. It is not meant to be a list of praise or condemnation; it's just stuff that made me laugh, or that I find interesting, or that made me say, "Huh?!"

Before you start, go fill up whatever that is you are drinking, because there are 355 featured so far...

♂ Lincoln M. Alexander (90) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 January 1922 — 19 October 2012.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

When Alexander won Hamilton West for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1968 general election, he was the first Black man elected to the House of Commons.
 

♂ Jean Alfred (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

10 March 1940 — 20 July 2015.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

The one-term PQ MNA for Papineau (1976–1981) was the first Black member of the Quebec National Assembly.
 

♂ Shafqat Ali (±58) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1965 — .
In office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

In May 2022, Ali had to apologize to the House of Commons for virtually appearing in the House from a toilet stall. (The guy isn't shy, we'll give him that!)
 

♂ James T.M. Anderson (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 July 1878 — 29 December 1946.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 3

Fifth premier of Saskatchewan, Anderson was alleged to work closely with the Ku Klux Klan, a powerful organization in that province in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
 

♂ Shaye Q. Anderson (47) years old as of today. This person was born on

21 March 1975 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Anderson, the Alberta NDP MLA for Leduc-Beaumont from 2015 to 2019, was noticed for his pronounced facial hair when he was elected, bringing National Post columnist Jen Gerson to refer to it as "the most conspicuous and healthy beard seen in Canadian politics this side of the 19th century."
 

♂ François Aquin (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 March 1929 — 23 November 2017.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

When Aquin left the Québec Liberal Party on August 3, 1967, to sit as an independant, he became the first openly sovereignist MNA. He resigned on November 20, 1968. Although he participated in its founding, he did not join the Parti Quebecois.
 

♂ Adrien Arcand (67) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 October 1899 — 1 August 1967.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Arcand, who proclaimed himself the Canadian Führer, ran federally twice (in 1949 and 1953), coming second in a field of four candidates each time.
 

♂ Hazen R. Argue (70) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 January 1921 — 2 October 1991.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 6

After losing the leadership race for the newly-formed NDP in August 1961 to Tommy Douglas, Argue declared in his concession speech, "No matter what my role is in the years ahead, I shall speak for you. I shall work for you. I shall never let you down." But then he crossed to the Liberal Party in February 1962.
 

♂ George Armstrong (85) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 April 1870 — 13 February 1956.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 1

Armstrong was one of the three convicted criminals (for his involvement in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) who was elected in the 1920 Manitoba general election. He was still in prison when elected as one of the MLAs for Winnipeg, representing the Socialist Party of Canada (Manitoba).
 

♂ Aubin-Edmond Arsenault (97) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 July 1870 — 27 April 1968.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

When Arsenault, a Conservative, was named premier of Prince Edward Island on June 21, 1917, he was the first Acadian in any province to reach that position.
 

♂ Kevin Arseneau (37) years old as of today. This person was born on

25 August 1985 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

First elected in 2018, Arseneau is the first Acadian to be elected as a third-party MLA in New Brunswick as well as the first francophone in North America to be elected under the Green Party banner.
 

⚥ Uzoma Asagwara (38) years old as of today. This person was born on

23 September 1984 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Upon their election in 2019, in addition to being first non-binary person, Asagwara was one of the first three Black Canadian MLAs in Manitoba.
 

♀ Yvonne Atwell (±80) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1943 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Atwell was the first black woman elected to the Nova Scotia legislature.
 

♂ Louis-Mathias Auger (63) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 April 1902 — 6 March 1966.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 1

A one-term Liberal, Auger was forced to resign his Ontario seat of Prescott on 21 March 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. After five trials and two appeals over sixteen months, he was acquitted of rape but found guilty of seduction, leading to a two-year sentence in Kingston Penitentiary, the maximum penalty for that crime. After prison he tried four times to get re-elected as an Independent Liberal — thrice provincially and once federally — but by then his reputation was ruined, quite rightly.
 

♂ George H. Baker (38) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 November 1877 — 2 June 1916.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Baker is the only sitting Canadian MP to be killed in action on military service.
 

♂ Percival Baker (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 January 1867 — 19 July 1921.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Baker was the elected United Farmers of Alberta candidate in Ponoka in the 1921 general election, but died the day after. He had had an accident while chopping down trees on his farm three weeks prior to the election.
 

♂ Peter Baker (±86) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

c. 1887 — c. 1973.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Born Bedouin Ferran in what is now Lebanon, Baker is one of Canada's earliest Muslim politicians. He served as the MLA for Mackenzie North (1964–1967) in the NWT legislature.
 

♂ William D. Balfour (45) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 August 1851 — 19 August 1896.
Died in office.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 6

Named Ontario provincial secretary in July 1896, Balfour won a ministerial by-election by acclamation on August 4. He died of complications caused by tuberculosis two weeks later.
 

♂ Gilles Baril (82) years old as of today. This person was born on

8 December 1940 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

In the 1985 Quebec general election, Gilles Baril the Liberal defeated Gilles Baril the Péquiste in Rouyn-Noranda-Témiscamingue.
 

♀ Pamela T. Barrett (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 November 1953 — 21 January 2008.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Barrett resigned as Alberta NDP leader and MLA in February 2000 after having what she claimed to be a near-death experience in a dentist's chair. She went on to die of esophageal cancer eight years later, at age 54.
 

♀ Mary J. Batten (94) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 August 1921 — 9 October 2015.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

A Saskatchewan Liberal, Batten, upon her election in 1956, was the first woman of Ukranian origin to become an MLA.
 

♂ Jaime Battiste (±44) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1979 — .
In office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Upon his election as the Liberal MP for Sydney—Victoria in the 2019 federal election, Battiste became the first Mi'kmaw MP in Canada.
 

♂ Dorian Baxter (72) years old as of today. This person was born on

3 April 1950 — .
Times presented: 14;   Times elected: 0

An extreme perennial candidate, Baxter was an Progressive Canadian candidate 11 times from 2004 to 2019. The centre-right party, which was dissolved after the 2019 federal election, had been formed in protest of the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party. At age 71, Baxter ran for a twelveth time federally in 2021, this time as an independent, winning fewer votes than the number of votes rejected.
 

♀ Monique Bégin (87) years old as of today. This person was born on

1 March 1936 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

When Bégin won the riding of Saint-Michel for the Liberal Party in the 1972 general election, she was one of first three women from Québec to be elected to the Canadian Parliament
 

♂ Henri-Sévérin Béland (65) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 October 1869 — 22 April 1935.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 9

Béland was re-elected by acclamation as the Liberal MP for the Québec riding of Beauce in the 1917 general election, this despite his being held as a prisoner of war at Stadtvogtei Prison in Berlin, Germany.
 

♀ Madeleine Bélanger (90) years old as of today. This person was born on

7 April 1932 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

When her husband died suddenly — Québec Liberal MNA for Mégantic-Compton Fabien Bélanger — she won the by-election three months later to replace him. He had held the seat for 2 years, 10 months and 14 days. She held it for 19 years, 4 months and 4 days.
 

♂ Richard Bélisle (76) years old as of today. This person was born on

20 July 1946 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 1

Bélisle was narrowly elected with a plurality of only 476 votes of the 63,860 cast as the Bloc Québécois MP for La Prairie in 1993. His electoral career went downhill after that. Defeated (again narrowly) in Saint-Lambert in 1997, he became a very unsuccessful Canadian Alliance and Conservative candidate federally and Liberal candidate provincially. After his last defeat in 2011, he was appointed to the Parole Board of Canada.
 

♂ Carlito M. Benito (69) years old as of today. This person was born on

21 February 1954 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Benito made a campaign promise that, if elected, he would donate his salary to charity, but when elected, the Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA claimed that he didn't mean he'd give away his entire salary — just a part of it.
 

♂ W.A. Cecil (W.A.C.) Bennett (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 September 1900 — 23 February 1979.
Times presented: 12;   Times elected: 11

Bennett became premier of British Columbia after the Social Credit Party's surprise electoral victory in 1952. He remained in that position for 20 years — a provincial record.
 

♂ Maxime Bernier (60) years old as of today. This person was born on

18 January 1963 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 4

When Bernier formed the People's Party of Canada after losing the 2018 leadership race for the Conservative Party, some analysts looked to when dissenting Conservative Henry H. Stevens formed the Reconstruction Party in 1934. However, as of 2022, history does not seem to be repeating itself. In the 1935 general election, Conservatives and Reconstructionists obtained 38.25% of the votes compared to 44.72% for the Liberals, with Stevens winning the only Re­con­struc­tion seat. In the 2019 and 2021 elections, while the PPC did siphon some votes from the Conservatives, the latter won the popular vote each time (but did not form government) and Bernier lost his seat and never managed to regain one.
 

♀ Gabrielle Bertrand (76) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

15 May 1923 — 10 September 1999.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Widow of Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Union nationale premier of Québec from 1968 to 1970, Gabrielle Bertrand served as the Progressive Conservative MP for Brome—Missisquoi from 1984 to 1993. Their son, Jean-François Bertrand, was the Parti Québécois MNA for Vanier from 1976 to 1985, so it is notable that she was not among the PC members who formed the Bloc Québécois.
 

♂ Manmeet S. Bhullar (35) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

1 March 1980 — 23 November 2015.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Stopping on the highway between Edmonton and Calgary in bad weather to assist a driver involved in a collision, Bhullar sustained fatal injuries after he was struck by a semi truck that had lost control descending a hill. He was 35 years old.
 

♂ George Black (92) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

10 April 1873 — 23 August 1965.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 6

When the Conservative MP for Yukon suffered a nervous breakdown toward the end of the 17th Parliament, his wife Martha won his seat in the 1935 general election, making her the second woman elected to Parliament. She occupied the seat for only one term until George returned to it from 1940 to 1949.
 

♂ Lindsay M.C. Blackett (62) years old as of today. This person was born on

8 February 1961 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

As the minister responsible for culture speaking to a panel of the Banff World Television Festival in 2010, Blackett said, "I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta, and I look at what we produce, and if we're honest with ourselves … I look at it and say, 'Why do I produce so much shit? Why do I fund so much crap?'" He later apologized for his choice of words but not his sentiment.
 

♂ Yves Blais (67) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

5 June 1931 — 22 November 1998.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Parti Québécois MNA since 1981, Blais died during the 1998 election campaign — one week before the election. It was postponed to two weeks later in his riding of Masson, and the new PQ candidate won it handily.
 

♂ D. Edward Blake (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 October 1833 — 1 March 1912.
Times presented: 15;   Times elected: 14

In the first years of Confederation to as late as 1874, one could sit in both their provincial legislature and the federal parliament in what was known as the "double mandate." Blake is one of the most extreme examples: for several months in 1871–72, he was the Liberal premier of Ontario while sitting as the MP for Durham West. Blake went on to sit in the British parliament from 1892 to 1907.
 

♂ Hiram Blanchard (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 January 1820 — 17 December 1874.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

First Nova Scotia premier of the Confederation era (for two months in 1867) and Conservative opposition leader until 1874, Blanchard died the day of the 1874 election in which he was not running.
 

♂ Bliss Botsford (76) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 November 1813 — 5 April 1890.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Botsford died in Moncton, New Brunswick, at the age of 76 after collapsing while descending a flight of stairs and then falling out through a window. Speaker of the legislative assembly from 1868 to 1870, he was no longer an MLA for Westmorland at the time of his death.
 

♂ Jos.-Henri-Nap. Bourassa (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

1 September 1868 — 31 August 1952.
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 9

Different times, different priorities, so what could Henri Bourassa possibly have in common with Sheila M. Copps (1952– ), born 88 days after Bourassa died? Both resigned on a matter of principle — Bourassa for Canada's participation in the Boer War, and Copps for her government not holding its promise to abolish the Goods and Service Tex established by the previous government. Both Bourassa and Copps were re-elected in their subsequent by-election.
 

♀ P. Marion Boyd (76) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 March 1946 — 11 October 2022.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 2

Boyd defeated the sitting premier, David R. Peterson, when she was first elected in 1990 in London Centre, earning her the nickname of "giant killer." She went on to become Ontario's first female and non-lawyer attorney general.
 

♂ John Bracken (85) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 June 1883 — 18 March 1969.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 6

When the struggling federal Conservative Party approached Manitoba Premier Bracken to become its leader in 1942, he accepted on the condition that the party be renamed Progressive Conservative. Bracken's political career had begun in 1922 as a Progressive, a movement that then splintered to the left and the right. Most on the left went on to form the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), while most on the right aligned with the Liberals. In fact, in Manitoba, the Progressives absorbed the Liberal Party of the time, although they agreed to be rebranded "Liberal Progressive" despite the fact they had become more dominant than the Liberals.
 

♂ Théodore-Louis-Antoine Broët (38) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 February 1870 — 14 September 1908.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

A Québec Liberal elected in Lac-Saint-Jean in the 1908 general election, Broët died three months later — before being able to take his seat in the assembly. A decade earlier, he had unsuccessfully run for office in France, where he was buried.
 

♀ Ruth Ellen Brosseau (38) years old as of today. This person was born on

26 April 1984 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

Brosseau is perhaps the most famous successful Canadian paper candidate so far in the 21st century. So certain was she that she would not win in Berthier—Maskinongé in the 2011 federal election, Brosseau, who was 27 at the time, never visited the riding and even went on vacation to Las Vegas midway through the campaign. But that was around the time NDP leader John G. (Jack) Layton (1950–2011) appeared on the popular TV show, Tout le monde en parle, and charmed the people of Québec. On election night, the NDP won 59 of the province's 75 ridings, including Brosseau's. She served two mandates, losing in 2019 and failing to regain her seat in 2021.
 

♂ George Brown (61) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 November 1818 — 9 May 1880.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

One of the Fathers of Confederation, Brown sat in the legislative assembly of the Province of Canada before Confederation. Also widely seen as the leader of the federal Liberal Party in 1867, he did not succeed in winning a seat in the new parliament.
 

♀ Janet C. (Jan) Brown (75) years old as of today. This person was born on

23 June 1947 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Elected MP for Calgary Southeast along with 51 other Reform Party candidates in the 1993 federal election, Brown drew admiration in 1994 when she placed a rose on the empty desk of rival Bloc Québécois and official opposition leader Lucien Bouchard who was fighting for his life as a result of necrotizing fasciitis. Considered a moderate, she openly spoke out against the right wing of Reform, behaviour which, in May 1996, led her to being suspended from the party along with two controversial members of that right wing. Sitting as an independent for the remainder of 35th Parliament, she ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Calgary Southwest in the 1997 general election against her former leader, E. Preston Manning, finishing a distant third.
 

♀ Rosemary Brown (72) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 June 1930 — 26 April 2003.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Upon her election for the NDP in Vancouver-Burrard in the 1972 British Columbia general election, Brown became the first Black female MLA in a Canadian legislature.
 

♂ Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (43) years old as of today. This person was born on

1 July 1979 — .
In office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Sometimes destiny works in funny ways. Brunelle-Duceppe, MP for Lac-Saint-Jean since 2019 and son of former Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, was born on Canada Day (July 1). But Jean J. Charest, Québec's Liberal premier from 2003 to 2012 and a staunch federalist, was born on Saint Jean Baptiste Day (June 24).
 

♂ Thomas Bryson (±55) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 15 January 1826 — 4 January 1882.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Conservative elected to the Québec assembly for Pontiac in December 1881, Bryson never took his seat. He died a month after being elected, at about age 55.
 

♂ Charles Cadman (57) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 February 1948 — 9 July 2005.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Reform candidate Chuck Cadman was first elected as MP in 1997 in the British Columbia riding of Surrey North, winning the seat again in 2000 as Alliance. When he failed to win the Conservative nomination in 2004, he ran as an independent and won the seat again. He is remembered for how, while battling cancer in 2005, he helped keep the Liberal minority government in power during critical votes, and that he died in office on July 9 of that year. In the 2006 election, his wife Dona endorsed a family friend to replace him: the NDP's Penny Priddy, who won handily. When Priddy decided not to seek a second term in 2008, Dona, by then reconciled with the Conservatives, won the seat for one term, being defeated in 2011 by the NDP's Jasbir Sandhu.
 

♂ Frank A. Calder (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 August 1915 — 4 November 2006.
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 9

This is a cautionary tale for those who think that their vote doesn't count... Calder, British Columbia CCF/NDP MLA for Atlin for all but one term since 1949 and the first First Nations person to be elected to any legislature in Canada, failed to win the NDP nomination in his riding in 1975, so he crossed to the Social Credit Party and won decisively in the general election that year. Then, the NDP surged in the 1979 election — not enough to form government but enough to make Calder, 63, lose his seat by one vote to Alan L. Passarell, 29. He and his wife had neglected to vote that year; he would have won by one vote if they had.
 

♂ Reginald T. Caldwell (53) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 June 1885 — 2 March 1939.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

A Nova Scotia Conservative MLA for Kings County from 1925 to 1933, Caldwell died in the Queen Hotel fire in Halifax on March 2, 1939. He was 53 years old.
 

♂ Malcolm Cameron (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 April 1808 — 1 June 1876.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

An Ontario Liberal, Cameron lost in Ontario North during the first federal election in 1867; again in Renfrew South in the 1869 by-election, and again in Russell during the 1872 general election. Finally winning the seat for Ontario South in the 1874 general election, he died in office 2 years and 4 months later, at the age of 68.
 

♀ A. Kim Campbell (76) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 March 1947 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

Campbell has so far been the only woman to serve as prime minister of Canada.
 

♀ Coline Campbell (82) years old as of today. This person was born on

26 September 1940 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 3

Upon becoming the Liberal MP in South Western Nova in the 1974 general election, Campbell was the first woman from Nova Scotia elected to the Canadian Parliament. She would alternately win and lose subsequent elections until her last one in 1988, which she won.
 

♀ E. Jean Canfield (81) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 October 1919 — 31 December 2000.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 3

Upon becoming a Liberal MLA in Queens 1st in the 1970 general election, Canfield was the first woman elected to the Prince Edward Island legislature.
 

♂ Isaac Carling (±70) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

c. April 1825 — c. August 1895.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

An Ontario Conservative, Carling was the son of Thomas Carling, the founder of the brewing company bearing the family name. He sat as the MPP for Huron South for only two years between 1868 and 1871, never winning a seat competitively.
 

♂ William D. Casey (78) years old as of today. This person was born on

19 February 1945 — .
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Occasionally, the candidate matters more to constituents than the party, and Casey is evidence of that: he was elected to Parliament four different ways — Progressive Conservative (1988, 1997, 2000), Conservative (2004, 2006), independent (2008), and Liberal (2015).
 

♂ Frederick M. Cass (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

5 August 1913 — 25 November 2000.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

During his time as speaker in the Ontario legislature (1968-1971), Cass ruled that opposition members could not begin their questions with "why" during Question Period, as such questions were "usually not aimed at soliciting information from cabinet ministers, but at giving the questioner an opening to catalogue his complaints about the government."
 

♀ Cora T. Casselman (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 October 1888 — 6 September 1964.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

The Liberal candidate in the 1941 by-election in Edmonton East, Casselman was the first woman from Alberta elected to the Canadian Parliament, replacing her husband who had died three months earlier.
 

♂ Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

31 December 1816 — 23 February 1885.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 7

Cauchon is among those who held two seats — one provincially and one federally — in 1867 and from 1872 to 1874, relinquishing his provincial seat in 1874 when the "double mandate" was abolished. He always sat as a Conservative in Québec City, but in Ottawa he sat as a Con­ser­va­tive, an Independent Conservative, an Independent and ultimately a Liberal, serving as minister of Inland Revenue for fours months until his appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba in October 1877. Estimated to have made as much as $1,000,000 by 1882 in market speculation, he was ruined that year when the market crashed.
 

♀ Kateri Champagne Jourdain . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

When Champagne Jourdain won in Duplessis in 2022, she became the first indigenous woman elected in the Québec National Assembly.
 

♂ William N. Chant (81) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 July 1895 — 25 September 1976.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Chant served only one term in the first Social Credit government in Alberta. He joined the dissidents from his party who were upset with the premier, William Aberhart, for failing to provide Albertans with $25 monthly dividends through social credit as had been promised in the 1935 election campaign, and sat as an independent from 1937. He was more successful in SoCred politics after moving to British Columbia, serving six terms from 1953 to 1971 as an MLA for Victoria and choosing to retire from politics at the age of 77.
 

♂ Jean J. Charest (64) years old as of today. This person was born on

24 June 1958 — .
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 8

A staunch federalist but admittedly proud Québécois, the former premier (2003–2012) was born on Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day.
 

♂ Gilbert Chartrand (68) years old as of today. This person was born on

3 November 1954 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

In April 2005, long after leaving politics, Chartrand and his wife were convicted of fraud and conspiracy against their boss and were sentenced to 18-month prison terms.
 

♂ David C. Chatters (69) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

15 April 1946 — 25 January 2016.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

A Conservative first elected during the Reform/Canadian Alliance era, Chatters asserted in May 1996 that schools should have the right to fire openly gay teachers. That position led him to be suspended from the Reform caucus until September. (Big punishment!)
 

♂ Gulzar S. Cheema (68) years old as of today. This person was born on

11 August 1954 — .
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 3

A Liberal, Cheema was successful in getting elected as a Manitoba MLA at age 33 (1988–1993) and as a British Columbia MLA at age 46 (2001–2004), but he failed to enter the House of Commons in 2004 at age 49 or to return to the British Columbia legislature in 2020 at age 66.
 

♂ Paul Chiang (±63) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1960 — .
In office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Born in Pakistan but from Chinese heritage, Chiang speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, and Hakka.
 

♂ Giuseppe (Joe) Cimino (±54) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1969 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Cimino resigned on November 20, 2014, only five months after narrowly winning the Ontario seat of Sudbury for the NDP, citing the strain of being an MPP on his personal health as well as on his family.
 

♂ John E. Clark (41) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 March 1915 — 3 June 1956.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Clark was the Alberta Social Credit MLA for Stettler from 1952 to 1956. He committed one of the deadliest mass murders in Alberta history and then killed himself.
 

♂ George Clayes (±57) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1831 — 3 March 1888.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Clayes, a Québec Liberal from Missisquoi, did not win the riding provincially in 1871, nor federally in 1878 or 1882. He died in office at the age of 57, one year after winning it in the 1887 federal general election.
 

♂ Bernard Cleary (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 May 1937 — 27 July 2020.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Bloc Québécois candidate in Louis-Saint-Laurent in the 2004 general election, Cleary was the first indigenous person from Quebec elected to the Canadian Parliament. He lost his seat in the following election to his 2004 Conservative rival, Josée Verner.
 

♀ Maxine E. Cochran (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

5 August 1926 — 8 July 2014.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

First elected in a June 1984 by-election in Lunenburg Centre following the death of her husband Bruce, Cochran, a Progressive Conservative, was the first woman cabinet minister in Nova Scotia.
 

♀ E. Shaughnessy Cohen (50) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 February 1948 — 9 December 1998.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Cohen is the first (and so far only) MP ever to suffer a fatal health incident in the House of Commons.
 

♂ George Coles (64) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 September 1810 — 21 August 1875.
Times presented: 0;   Times elected: 0

Coles was the first premier of Prince Edward Island. An initial supporter of Confederation as long as it would guarantee the liquidation of leasehold tenure, he turned against it after the 1864 Québec conference when the Canadians answered that the Islanders were already promised more than their fair share of financial subsidies. Coles is said to have been hit with early senility in his third term as premier and chose to resign in August 1868. Historians today are divided as to whether he had become senile, insane, or simply depressed.
 

♂ Lionel P. Conacher (52) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 May 1902 — 26 May 1954.
Died in office.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 3

Liberal MP for Trinity and athlete, Conacher died during a softball game between members of Parliament and the Press Gallery on the lawn of Parliament Hill. He was only 52 years old.
 

♂ Randy E. Cooke (61) years old as of today. This person was born on

4 July 1961 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Cooke ended up living up to his given name. The Prince Edward Island Liberal resigned his seat after admitting that he had billed phone-sex calls to his legislature calling card.
 

♂ M. Dominic (Maxime) Cormier (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 December 1878 — 14 January 1933.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Defeated in Victoria in the 1911 federal general election and provincially in Madawaska in 1912 and 1925, the New Brunswick Conservative succeeded in being elected as the MP for Restigouche—Madawaska in 1930, but died in office 2 years and 5 months later at the age of 54. His successor was a future Liberal minister, Joseph-Enoil Michaud.
 

♂ Alexandre Cormier-Denis (38) years old as of today. This person was born on

15 August 1984 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

A notorious xenophobe, Cormier-Denis' election sign during the 2017 by-election in Gouin bore the slogan "Choose your Quebec" and contrasted two images of Kelly Betesh, a French activist from the National Front, one showing her wearing a blue tuque with a fleur-de-lis pin and the other wearing a black niqab. The posters were removed by the police following complaints, then reinstalled. It is in this by-election that Québec solidaire's Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois made his entry to the National Assembly.
 

⚥ Estefan Cortes-Vargas (±32) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1991 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Elected for one term as the Alberta NDP MLA for Strathcona-Sherwood Park in the 2015 general election, Cortes-Vargas was the first person in any Canadian legislature to have come out as non-binary. They did not re-offer in 2019 but they are the reason why this database now explicity identifies and tracks persons who identify as such.
 

♂ Walter D. Cowan (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

31 December 1865 — 28 September 1934.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

During his second mandate as a Conservative MP (Long Lake, 1930–1934), Cowan was the provincial treasurer of the Saskatchewan chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. He died in office at the age of 68.
 

♂ Adam Crooks (58) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 December 1827 — 28 December 1885.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 5

The political career of this Ontario Liberal MPP ended in 1884 when he was declared "incurably insane."
 

♂ John C. Crosbie (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 January 1931 — 10 January 2020.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 9

The Crosbie family name is now associated to the Progressive Conservative Party in Newfoundland, but when John C. was first elected to the House of Assembly for St John's West in 1966, it was as a Liberal and he sat as such for three years. John won in every election in which he ran, which is something his son Chesley cannot claim for himself.
 

♂ Raoul Dandurand (80) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 November 1861 — 11 March 1942.
Times presented: 0;   Times elected: 0

Dandurand was the senator for the division of De Lorimier. He was called to the Senate in 1898 by Wilfrid Laurier and never ran for office, yet he was an influential minister without portfolio in three cabinets of Mackenzie King until his death at the age of 80.
 

♀ Libby Davies (70) years old as of today. This person was born on

27 February 1953 — .
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 6

Davies was the NDP MP for Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015. She had had a 24-year relationship with Bruce Eriksen until he died of cancer in 1997. In 2001, she was the first female MP to reveal that she was in a same-sex relationship. During the 2005 debate on same-sex marriage in Canada, Conservative MP Jason Kenney cited her prior relationship with Eriksen as proof that marriage law does not dis­crim­i­nate against LGBT individuals since a gay person can marry a member of the opposite sex. Joining other commentators, Davies, who had never been formally married to Eriksen, criticized Kenney for playing politics with other parliamentarians' personal lives.
 

♂ William G. Davis (92) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 July 1929 — 8 August 2021.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 7

Davis used the phrase "Bland works" to describe the success of his style of Progressive Conservative government in Ontario.
 

♂ Simon J. Dawson (84) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 June 1818 — 30 October 1902.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Dawson sat for the Liberal Party of Ontario while he was an MPP from 1875 to 1878. Federally, while nominally an independent member until 1887, he supported the Conservative Party of Canada.
 

♂ Amor De Cosmos (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 August 1825 — 4 July 1897.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

The second premier of British Columbia was known for being eccentric. Born William Alexander Smith, he would go on to sit as the MP for Victoria until his defeat in 1882. He was declared insane two years before his death.
 

♂ Georges-Ervé Denault (40) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 July 1882 — 7 February 1923.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Denault, the Québec Liberal Party candidate in Richmond in 1923, died two days after being elected and thus never took his seat in the assembly.
 

♂ Azellus Denis (84) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 March 1907 — 4 September 1991.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 9

Denis served as a Liberal MP for 28 years, 3 months and 12 days. But combining his time serving in the Senate, he is the longest serving parliamentarian in Canadian history: 55 years, 10 months and 22 days. He died as a senator at the age of 84.
 

♂ Blake B. Desjarlais (29) years old as of today. This person was born on

29 December 1993 — .
In office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

When Desjarlais won the Alberta seat of Edmonton Griesbach for the NDP in the 2021 general election, he became the first openly two-spirit individual to serve as an MP.
 

♂ Hospice Desrosiers (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 June 1863 — 20 April 1935.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A Québec Conservative, Desrosiers was elected in Châteauguay in the general election held in June 1908; however, his election was contested on November 13 and he lost the resulting by-election to Honoré Mercier Jr.. Defeated again by Mercier in the 1912 general election, he never got to sit in the legislative assembly.
 

♀ Mabel M. DeWare (96) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 August 1926 — 17 August 2022.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

When visiting a mine in northern New Brunswick early in her tenure as Minister of Labour, DeWare was questioned on what SHE could possibly know about "labour." Not missing a beat, she retorted to the assembly of men, "I know more about labour then any of you ever will! A woman in labour always delivers!"
 

♂ John G. Diefenbaker (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 September 1895 — 16 August 1979.
Died in office.
Times presented: 17;   Times elected: 13

Diefenbaker lived to see the return of the Progressive Conservatives to the government benches but died three months later at the age of 83. His successor in the Saskatchewan riding of Prince Albert was, ironically, Stanley Hovdebo of the NDP who Diefenbaker had soundly defeated the previous spring.
 

♂ James G. Dinn (±63) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1960 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Since the 49th assembly, Dinn has been sitting in the opposition benches in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as the New Democratic Party MHA for St John's Centre, while his brother Paul has also been sitting in the opposition... as the Progressive Conservative MHA for Topsail—Paradise.
 

♂ Stéphane M. Dion (67) years old as of today. This person was born on

28 September 1955 — .
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 8

Setting aside interim leaders, Dion was the first leader of the Liberal Party of Canada not to serve as prime minister since Edward Blake, who had led the party from 1880 to 1887. His successor, Michael Ignatieff, was the second.
 

♂ Gordon E. Dirks (75) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 June 1947 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

Dirks has served two terms as a Progressive Conservative MLA, but one was in Saskatchewan for 4 years and almost 6 months (1982–1986) and the other was in Alberta for 6 months (2014–2015).
 

♂ Russell J. Doern (51) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 October 1935 — 19 February 1987.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

Doern left the NDP to sit as an independent MLA on March 7, 1984, due to his opposition to his government's efforts to legally entrench French-language services in Manitoba. Used to winning with comfortable margins, he was defeated in Elmwood in the 1986 general election. He committed suicide less than a year later, by all accounts distraught by the fact that he had little chance of returning to political life.
 

♀ Catherine Dorion (40) years old as of today. This person was born on

30 September 1982 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A one-term Québec solidaire MNA (2018–2022), Dorion was banned from the Blue Room on 8 November 2019 for dress code violations that have included t-shirts, Doc Martens shoes, and an orange hoodie.
 

♂ Thomas C. Douglas (81) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 October 1904 — 24 February 1986.
Times presented: 16;   Times elected: 13

Douglas is remembered as the "Father of Medicare." While he was federal NDP leader, he lost his Burnaby—Seymour seat by only 138 votes in the 1968 general election. He was able to return to Parliament through a by-election necessitated in Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands in February of the following year because of the sudden death of Colin Cameron one month after the general election. Like many Pro­gres­sives / early CCF members, Douglas endorsed eugenics — his 1933 MA thesis was on that topic — but, like the others, he reversed his position and advocated instead for vocational training for the mentally handicapped and therapy for those suffering from mental disorders.
 

♂ Joseph P. Downey (±60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 January 1865 — c. 1926.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

How times and wordings have changed! When Downey, an Ontario Conservative, resigned as the MPP for Wellington South, it was because he had been appointed superintendent for the Ontario Asylum for Idiots.
 

♂ Jean Drapeau (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 February 1916 — 12 August 1999.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Well before his first election in 1957 as mayor of Montréal, Drapeau was twice a candidate for the Bloc populaire canadien: once federally in the 1942 by-election in Outremont, and once provincially in the 1944 Québec general election in Montréal—Jeanne-Mance. His second term as mayor of Montréal ran from October 24, 1960 to November 9, 1986.
 

♂ Gilles Duceppe (75) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 July 1947 — .
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Duceppe is technically the first Bloc Québécois candidate to be elected. He ran in the August 1990 by-election in Laurier—Sainte-Marie following the sudden death of the riding's Liberal MP, Jean-Claude Malépart, but he did so as an independent because the Bloc had not yet been registered with Elections Canada.
 

♀ Patricia Duncan (62) years old as of today. This person was born on

8 April 1960 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

A Liberal, Duncan was the first woman to become premier of the Yukon (2000–2002). Her call of a snap election two years before necessary resulted in her government's defeat at the polls; she was the only Liberal elected. She has been a senator since December 2018.
 

♂ Maurice L.N. Duplessis (69) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 April 1890 — 7 September 1959.
Died in office.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 9

Remembered by some as a great leader and by others for "La Grande Noirceur" (The Great Darkness), Duplessis served as Québec's premier for 18 years and 82 days — although not consecutively — and he remains to this day the person who has occupied that position the longest.
 

♀ Louisette Dussault (82) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

12 June 1940 — 14 March 2023.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

The actor French-speaking children of the 1970s remember as la souris verte ran for the Rhinoceros Party in the riding of Sainte-Marie in the 1972 federal election.
 

♂ Roland Dussault (82) years old as of today. This person was born on

15 November 1940 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

After his decisive defeat seeking a third mandate as the Parti Québécois MNA for Châteauguay, Dussault held various positions within the Raelian Movement from 1987 to 2005.
 

♀ Shirley T. Dysart (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 February 1928 — 14 December 2016.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Upon her first election in Saint John North in 1974, Dysart was the first Liberal woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
 

♂ David R.P. Eby (46) years old as of today. This person was born on

21 July 1976 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

In a 2011 by-election, Eby lost against Liberal Christy Clark as she returned to the British Columbia legislature as premier. He defeated her in the 2013 general election that followed and, nine years later, he became NDP premier.
 

♂ Charles B. Edie (±46) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1842 — 8 February 1888.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Winning the August 1882 by-election in Springfield, Edie, a Manitoba Conservative, never got to take his seat: John H. Bell defeated him in the January 1883 general election.
 

♂ Dale Eftoda (±74) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1949 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Liberal MLA for Riverdale North from 2000 to 2002, Eftoda was the first openly gay member of the Yukon legislature.
 

♂ D. Wayne Elhard (75) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 August 1947 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

In the June 1999 by-election in Cypress Hills, Elhard was the first to be elected under the Saskatchewan Party banner.
 

♂ Henry R. Emmerson (60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 September 1853 — 9 July 1914.
Died in office.
Times presented: 13;   Times elected: 10

The Liberal Emmerson was the 9th Premier of New Brunswick from October 1897 to August 1900, at which time he resigned to be elected the federal MP for Westmorland. His alcoholism and reputation as a womanizer hampered his career; he was forced to resign from Wilfrid Laurier's cabinet in 1907, after a newspaper reported that he had been thrown out of a Montreal hotel with "two women of ill repute."
 

♂ William End (±74) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1798 — 14 December 1872.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

End died in a fire in his office in Bathurst, New Brunswick, likely assassinated by a man whom he had sentenced to time in jail. He was no longer an MLA at the time of his death. He had been an MLA for Gloucester from 1830 to 1850 (10th to 14th assemblies), 1854 to 1856 (16th assembly), and 1857 to 1861 (18th assembly).
 

♂ James Evans (32) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 March 1848 — 23 June 1880.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Evans is said to have been born in 1848 but there is reason to doubt that because that would have made him 19 years old at his election to the Ontario legislature. The voting age for provincial elections in Ontario was only lowered from 21 to 19 in 1971.
 

♂ Alphonsus (Fonse) Faour (71) years old as of today. This person was born on

16 November 1951 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Faour was elected MP in a by-election in Humber—Port au Port—St Barbe in October 1978 and re-elected in the 1979 general election. For whatever reason, this is not the part of Newfoundland I would have expected that province's first NDP MP, but then Liberal Brian Tobin came along in 1980 and normality returned.
 

♂ Henry F. Feehan (79) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 July 1854 — 25 December 1933.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A bachelor, Feehan was quoted as saying, "Well those that would have me, I wouldn't have and those I would have, wouldn't have me."
 

♂ Peter Fenwick (78) years old as of today. This person was born on

18 July 1944 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 2

Fenwick went from being the leader of the Newfoundland NDP for much of the 1980s and being the MHA for Menihek from 1984 to 1989, to running for the Canadian (Reform Conservative) Alliance in the riding of Burin—St George's during the 2000 federal election.
 

♂ Taras D. Ferley (64) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

14 October 1882 — 27 July 1947.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Elected in Gimli in 1915, Ferley was the first Ukrainian Canadian to be sit in the Manitoba' legislature.
 

♂ Muhammad Fiaz . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Born in Pakistan, Fiaz is the first Muslim elected to the Saskatchewan legislature (Regina Pasqua, 2016– ).
 

♂ Steven J. Fletcher (50) years old as of today. This person was born on

17 June 1972 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 5

Manitoba Conservative MP for Charleswood—St James—Assiniboia from 2004 to 2015, Fletcher was the first quadriplegic and wheelchair user to serve in the House of Commons. Six months after his defeat in the 2015 election, he was elected Progres­sive Conservative MLA for Assiniboia. Quitting the PCs and sitting as an independent from June 30, 2017, he formed and led the Manitoba Party on August 18, 2018. He did not run in the 2019 provincial election, attempting instead (but failing) to regain his federal seat under the banner of the People's Party of Canada. At the time, he claimed that he and Maxime Bernier are "ideological soulmates."
 

♂ Eugene A. Forsey (86) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 May 1904 — 20 February 1991.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 0

Forsey ran thrice unsuccessfully for election under the CCF banner in the 1940s — once provincially and twice federally. But he made his way to Parliament in October 1970 as a Liberal senator, serving nearly nine years.
 

♂ André-Gilles Fortin (33) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 November 1943 — 24 June 1977.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada, Fortin died in a road accident at the age of 33. He fell asleep at the wheel at the level of the Sault River, which crosses Québec Highway 20 at the height of Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover.
 

♂ Henry D. Francis (65) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 July 1921 — 2 May 1987.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Elected Social Credit candidate in Similkameen in the 1952 British Columbia general election, Francis never got to take his seat. He resigned to allow unelected finance minister Einar Gunderson to run for it in a by-election, and then failed to get re-elected in Revelstoke in the 1953 general election. Gunderson also failed to get re-elected in 1953 when he ran in Oak Bay, but the seat of Similkameen remained in the hands of Social Credit... until 1988!
 

♂ F. Paul Fromm (74) years old as of today. This person was born on

3 January 1949 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 0

If even the National Post describes Fromm as "one of Canada's most notorious white supremacists," then it must really be bad!
 

♀ Liza Frulla (73) years old as of today. This person was born on

30 March 1949 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

Frulla, a staunch federalist, is good friends with Louise Beaudoin, an unfailing Québec sovereignist. They talked about it in 2007 in their book, Amitié interdite.
 

♀ Hedy M. Fry (81) years old as of today. This person was born on

6 August 1941 — .
In office.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 10

Fry's first claim to political fame is that she is the woman who took down the sitting prime minister in Vancouver Centre in the 1993 general election. Her most recent claim is that, at 80 years of age, she is the oldest woman to be elected to Parliament.
 

♂ Philip A. Gaglardi (82) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 January 1913 — 23 September 1995.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 7

Gaglardi was elected in 1952 in Kamloops when the British Columbia Social Credit Party formed its first government and was only defeated 20 years later when that party lost government.
 

♂ François Gendron (78) years old as of today. This person was born on

3 November 1944 — .
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 11

Elected for the first time in 1976 as part of the first Parti Québécois government, Gendron was re-elected 10 times as the MNA for Abitibi-Ouest until choosing to retire in 2018 at age 73. He served as an MNA for 41 years and 5 months.
 

♂ Joseph A. Ghiz (51) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

27 January 1945 — 9 November 1996.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

When Ghiz became premier of Prince Edward Island in April 1986, he was Canada's first premier of non-European descent.
 

♂ Alain Giguère (64) years old as of today. This person was born on

24 October 1958 — .
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 1

A person who has been never elected and has run ten times or more at the federal or provincial level is considered an extreme perennial candidate. An NDP candidate in several Québec ridings since 1984, Giguère narrowly escapes this definition, for although he has run 11 times so far, he rode the orange wave in the 2011 federal election and got elected once in Marc-Aurèle-Fortin. That makes him a one-hit wonder.
 

♂ Jack Goohsen (80) years old as of today. This person was born on

7 November 1942 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

A Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative, Goohsen is no choir boy. He was forced to resign as an MLA in 1999 when he was convicted on the child prostitution charge. However, to those who thought the Saskatchewan Party had swallowed up the provincial PCs, think again! Goohsen ran as the PC candidate in Cypress Hills as recently as the 2020 general election. He came in fourth in a field of five candidates, with 328 of 7,213 votes cast. The Green Party candidate came last with only 110 votes.
 

♀ Audrey Gordon . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A Progressive Conservative, Gordon is one of the first three Black Canadian MLAs in Manitoba, elected in Fort Rouge in 2019.
 

♀ G. Jean Gordon (90) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 March 1918 — 5 September 2008.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Gordon was the first woman elected to the Yukon Council, serving one term from 1967 (21st assembly) until her defeat in 1970.
 

♂ Ronald A. Gostick (86) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 July 1918 — 16 July 2005.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

A well-known publisher of anti-Semitic and far-right literature, Gostick ran twice for office in Ontario, coming last each time: in the 1945 federal election for Grey North as the Social Credit candidate, and in the 1948 Ontario general election for Glengarry under the Union of Electors banner. He was the son of Edith H. Gostick, who was one of the four Alberta Social Credit MLAs elected in Calgary in the 1935 general election.
 

♂ Solomon H. Green (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 October 1885 — 13 April 1969.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

A Liberal, Green was the first Jewish Cana­dian to serve in the Manitoba legis­lature (1910–1914). Only 24 years old when he was elected in Winnipeg North, he served only one term. He died at the age of 83.
 

♂ Frank W. Greenwood (89) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 July 1929 — 11 May 2019.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

The B.C. Social Credit's Greenwood never took his seat for Columbia that he won in a by-election on 15 July 1963, as a general election was called earlier than expected that following September and he chose not to re-offer.
 

♀ Lisa Gretzky (52) years old as of today. This person was born on

19 January 1971 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Lisa's connection to the famous hockey player Wayne is distant: they are cousins-in-law through her husband Tyler.
 

♂ Henri Groulx (64) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 May 1888 — 16 July 1952.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Groulx, Liberal MLA for Montréal-Outremont, died the night of his re-election for a fourth term.
 

♂ George E. Hagen (62) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

1 July 1878 — 11 November 1940.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Hagen might have had a premonition... The Liberal minister of industry of Nova Scotia resigned from politics in July 1940 but then changed his mind, getting re-elected by acclamation on 28 October 1940. He died in office two weeks later.
 

♀ Margaret Haile . The dates of birth and death for this person are unknown

?? — ??.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

In 1902, Haile was the first woman in the British Empire to run for political office, running for the Canadian Socialist League (Ontario) in the provincial riding of Toronto North. Had she won, however, she would not have been eligible to take her seat in the legislative assembly.
 

♂ Arthur Hanger (80) years old as of today. This person was born on

19 February 1943 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

One of the most conservative Reform / Canadian Alliance / current Conservative Party of Canada members, Hanger booked a trip to Singapore in March 1996 to investigate its use of caning in deterring crime but was forced to cancel it after public outcry and criticism from within the party. (Odd, huh? Such a great idea for Canada...)
 

♀ Isabel J. Tibbie Hardie (90) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 February 1916 — 14 November 2006.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Isabel's husband, Mervyn, died in office October 18, 1961. The Lib­er­als nominated her in the 1962 general elec­tion; thus she became the first woman from the Northwest Territories to be elected to the Canadian Parliament. She was de­feat­ed in the general election held the next year.
 

♂ Stephen J. Harper (63) years old as of today. This person was born on

30 April 1959 — .
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 7

The first time he ran for the Reform Party in Calgary West during the 1988 general election, he who would become Canada's 22nd prime minister was very badly beaten by Jim Hawkes. Harper was 29 years old at the time, but the reverse happened in the 1993 election when Harper was 34.
 

♂ Richard B. Hatfield (60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 April 1931 — 26 April 1991.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 7

The fact that the New Brunswick premier from 1970 to 1987 was gay was an open secret while he was alive but it was only discussed openly after his death. But in having that discussion, are we forgetting that he remains, to this day, the province's longest serving premier?
 

♂ Frederick W.A.G. Haultain (84) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 November 1857 — 30 January 1942.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 9

Haultain, the only premier of the area of the Northwest Territories that is today Alberta and Saskatchewan, is recognized as having had a significant contribution towards the creation of those provinces, although he would have preferred a single large province named Buffalo. Perhaps that explains the renaming in 2020 of Wexit Saskatchewan to the Buffalo Party?
 

♂ Albert M. Hemeon (53) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

1 January 1843 — 26 April 1896.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

A Nova Scotia Liberal who died in office in 1896, Hemeon is said to have been a "foremost advocate of female suffrage." Universal suffrage was only enacted in that province in 1920.
 

♂ Douglas J. Henning (52) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 May 1947 — 7 February 2000.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Isn't it hard to believe that we ever had such a thing as the Natural Law Party in Canada?
 

♂ Stephen S. Hessian (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 October 1891 — 5 November 1962.
Died in office.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 4

A Prince Edward Island Liberal, Hessian died in Lagos, Nigeria, while representing the province at a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference.
 

⚥ Gemma Hickey (46) years old as of today. This person was born on

1 October 1976 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 0

On December 14, 2017, Hickey became the first person in Newfoundland and Labrador, and one of the first in Canada, to receive a non-binary birth certificate.
 

♀ Patricia (Bonnie) Hickey (68) years old as of today. This person was born on

5 March 1955 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

A one-term Liberal in St John's East (1993–1997), Hickey was one of the two first women from Newfoundland elected to the Canadian Parliament.
 

♂ Richard B. Holden (74) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 July 1931 — 18 September 2005.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Holden was one of the four men elected in the 1989 Québec general election under the banner of the federalist, English-rights Equality Party. Expelled from the party in October 1991 for balking at party discipline, he sat as an independent until, to the shock of his constituents, he joined the Parti Québécois in August 1992. Suffering from chronic back pain, he committed suicide by jumping from the eighth-floor balcony of his apartment.
 

♀ Simma Holt (92) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

27 March 1922 — 23 January 2015.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A Liberal, Holt served one term in Van­cou­ver Kingsway (1974–1979) and was the first Jewish woman elected to the Canadian Parliament.
 

♂ Joseph Howe (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 December 1804 — 1 June 1873.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Like all but one Nova Scotia MP elected in 1867, Howe was against Confederation but he came to accept it a year later and joined the Conservatives. Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in May 1873, he died three weeks later, at age 68.
 

♂ William Ivens (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 June 1878 — 20 June 1957.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 4

Ivens was one of the three convicted criminals (for his involvement in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) who was elected in the 1920 Manitoba general election. He was still in prison when elected as one of the Dominion Labour Party MLAs for Winnipeg.
 

♂ Rahim Jaffer (51) years old as of today. This person was born on

15 December 1971 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

Reform / Canadian Alliance / Conservative MP for Edmonton—Strathcona from 1997 to 2008, Jaffer was the first Muslim elected to the Canadian Parliament.
 

♂ Otto Jelinek (82) years old as of today. This person was born on

20 May 1940 — .
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 6

A decade before his political career began, Jelinek and his sister Maria were the 1962 world champions in pair skating.
 

♂ Daniel Johnson (53) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 April 1915 — 26 September 1968.
Died in office.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 7

Member of the Union nationale, Johnson died in office while he was the premier of Québec. Two of his sons became premier after him, but for different parties: first Pierre-Marc for the Parti Québécois from October 3 to December 2, 1985, then Daniel for the Québec Liberal Party from January 11 to September 11, 1994. Wouldn't it be interesting to be a fly on the wall during that family's Christmas dinner?
 

♂ Leonard C. Jones (74) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 June 1924 — 23 June 1998.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Mayor of Moncton, New Brunswick, from 1963 to 1974, Jones was vehemently opposed to the use of the French language in any sphere of public activity in the city. Remaining popular with the anglophone majority, he won the Progressive Conservative nomination for the 1974 federal election, but PC leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign Jones's nomination papers because of the latter's opposition to the party's policy of bilingualism. Jones instead ran as an independent and served one term as the MP for Moncton.
 

♀ Nancy U. Karetak-Lindell (65) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 December 1957 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

A Liberal, Karetak-Lindell was the first woman from Nunavut elected to the Canadian Parliament (1997–2008). She is also the first holder of the seat, which was created a few years before Nunavut became a territory distinct from the NWT.
 

♂ Gary Keating . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Elected to the New Brunswick legislature on his second attempt in the 2014 general elec­tion, the Liberal Keating resigned from his Saint John East seat 22 days later, an­nounc­ing that he had decided that public political life was "not for him," as it would entail too much time away from his family.
 

♂ James Keegstra (80) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 March 1934 — 2 June 2014.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 0

Keegstra, who ran three times from 1972 to 1984 for the Social Credit Party of Canada, was arguably one of Canada's most notorious anti-Semite of the late 20th century.
 

♂ L. Gordon Kesler (±78) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1945 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Kesler is the only person to ever be elected to a legislative assembly under the Western Canada Concept banner.
 

♂ David T. King (76) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 June 1946 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

An Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA from 1971 to 1986, King moved to British Columbia and has been involved with that province's Green Party since at least 2013.
 

♂ John N. Kirchhoffer (66) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

5 May 1848 — 22 December 1914.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

It is uncertain if the man named Kirchhoffer who ran federally in Durham East in 1872 is in fact John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer. However, he did reside in Ontario at the time, and the winner of that 1872 election was the Liberal candidate while J.N. Kirchhoffer later served in the Senate as a Conservative after a stint as a Manitoba Conservative MLA.
 

♂ Trevor Kirczenow (±38) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1985 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Even though everybody knew that Kirczenow had a snowball's chance in hell of winning for the Liberals in the Manitoba federal riding of Provencher, one has to admire the audacity of a transgender person running against a staunch social conservative like Theodore J. Falk (1960– ) ...twice (in 2019 and 2021)!
 

♀ Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 September 1924 — 24 March 2016.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

In addition to being the first woman elected to the Québec legislature, Kirkland-Casgrain, a Liberal, was also the first woman in cabinet, the first female judge in the Provincial Court, and the first woman in Québec to be honoured with a national funeral.
 

♂ Stanley H. Knowles (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 June 1908 — 9 June 1997.
Times presented: 17;   Times elected: 13

Once the social democrat Knowles got elected to Parliament on his third try in Winnipeg North Centre in a 1942 by-election, he would go on to win every time after that up to the 1980 election, except for the 1958 Diefenbaker landslide. He served for 37 years, 6 months and 5 days.
 

♀ Margaret M. Konantz (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 April 1899 — 11 May 1967.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

A Liberal, Konantz was the first woman from Manitoba elected to the Canadian Parliament. She served only one term (Winnipeg South, 1963–1965).
 

♂ Eiling Kramer (84) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

14 July 1914 — 5 May 1999.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 8

At 28 years and 3 months, Kramer was the longest serving member of the Saskatchewan legislature.
 

⚥ Amita Kuttner (32) years old as of today. This person was born on

4 December 1990 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Although only by interim, Kuttner is the first transgender person and the first person of East Asian descent to lead a federal party in Canada.
 

♂ Joseph-Magloire Laberge (61) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

12 October 1870 — 12 July 1932.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Mayor of Châteauguay parish in 1908–09, Laberge was defeated by Honoré Mercier (son) in a by-election on December 16, 1907. However, his son Joseph-Maurice and his nephew Arthur were more successful later in the 20th century, both being elected as Union Nationale members, with Joseph-Maurice succeeding his cousin Arthur after he had died in office.
 

♂ Édouard Lacroix (74) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 January 1889 — 19 January 1963.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 6

Former federal Liberal MP elected for the Bloc populaire canadien in Beauce in the August 1944 Québec general election, Lacroix resigned on May 14, 1945, before ever taking his seat in the assembly.
 

♂ Charles-Eugène Laforest (±84) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. November 1923 — 14 September 2008.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

This man was my uncle. He ran when I was a teenager living in Moncton, N.B. That was back in the day when people wrote letters and I remember when he sent us a copy of his electoral pamphlet. I didn't remember when he ran or for which party (or that he got clobbered) until I built this database.
 

♂ Bob Lagassé . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

A Manitoba Progressive Conservative, Lagassé is known for his sleeve length tattoo and earrings. He has been elected twice (so far) to represent the strongly conservative riding of Dawson Trail.
 

♂ Jean Landry (74) years old as of today. This person was born on

3 October 1948 — .
Times presented: 12;   Times elected: 1

It started off well for Landry, but that might have been beginner's luck. Elected for the Bloc Québécois in Lotbinière in 1993, he ran 11 times after that under different banners and lost each time. His last attempt was in the 2021 federal election, when he came in fifth in a field of seven candidates in Trois-Rivières, running for the second time for the People's Party of Canada. Thus his lacklustre political career makes him a one-hit wonder.
 

♂ Pierre Laporte (49) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 February 1921 — 17 October 1970.
Died in office.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

Laporte's name is forever associated to the 1970 October Crisis. On October 10, the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the Liberal labour minister; his body was found in Saint-Hubert on October 17. He was 49.
 

♂ Henry T. Laurence (±75) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1841 — 17 August 1916.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Henry and Frederick (1843–1912) were brothers. They were both MLAs in the Nova Scotia legislature at the beginning of the 20th century. Henry was married to Susan while Frederick was married to Isabelle. Susan and Isabelle were sisters. Therefore, Henry and Frederick were also brothers-in-law.
 

♂ Bowman B. Law (60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 July 1855 — 3 February 1916.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Law was one of the seven victims — and only MP — of the fire that destroyed much of the Canadian Parliament buildings on the night of February 3, 1916.
 

♂ James R. Laxer (76) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 December 1941 — 23 February 2018.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Laxer was one of the founders of The Waffle, a radical wing of Canada's NDP in the late 1960s and early 1970s that es­poused Canadian nationalism and solidarity with Quebec's sovereignty movement.
 

♀ S.J. Jeannie Lea (72) years old as of today. This person was born on

16 October 1950 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Lea's husband, James, is the grandson of Walter Lea, Liberal premier of Prince Edward Island in 1930–31 and 1935 until his death. In 1935, Lea's government had won all the seats in the legislature.
 

♂ Mark LeBlanc (±43) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1980 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

In the 2003 general election, LeBlanc ran in Saint John-Kings for the senior-focused Grey Party of New Brunswick. That in itself would not be so notable except that he was 23-years-old at the time.
 

♂ Nic Leblanc (81) years old as of today. This person was born on

15 November 1941 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 3

Leblanc is one of those politicians whose allegiance can be said to be fluid. First elected as the MP for Longueuil in the 1984 federal Progressive Conservative wave, he was among those who joined the Bloc Québécois after the implosion of the Meech Lake Accord in June 1990. From shortly before the 1997 general election in which he did not run, he sat as an independent sovereignist. He then attempted to return to Parliament in 2000 under the Canadian Alliance banner, coming a distant third. He again came in third when attempting to enter provincial politics, this time under the banner of the Québec Liberal Party.
 

♂ Michel Leclerc . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 0

Leader of Free Party Canada, Leclerc claims to be a trained astronaut and denies that moon landing ever happened. He also believes, with no supporting evidence, that vaccines reduce life expectancy.
 

♂ Wallis W. LeFeaux (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

19 September 1881 — 24 November 1972.
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 1

After eight failed attempts at both the federal and provincial levels, British Columbia leftist LeFeaux finally won one of the two Vancouver Centre seats in the legislative assembly for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the 1941 general election, only to lose it in 1945. He also failed to get it back in 1949, and thus fits the definition of one-hit wonder.
 

♂ François-Xavier Lemieux (82) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 April 1851 — 18 July 1933.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 6

Lemieux won two seats in the Québec legislature in the 1897 general election (Bonaventure and Lévis) and probably would have kept them both had he not been named judge in November of that year.
 

♂ Robert J. Leslie (43) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 February 1862 — 5 December 1905.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

MLA for Îles-de-la-Madeleine for one year (1904–1905), the Nova Scotia native died in office in the shipwreck of the SS Lunenburg. His body was found 20 days later — on Christmas Day.
 

♂ John B. Lewis (56) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 March 1817 — 24 January 1874.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

The Conservative MP for City of Ottawa, Lewis had been campaigning for reelection in the 1874 election but records show that he did not run. He died two days after the election was held.
 

♂ Dwain M. Lingenfelter (74) years old as of today. This person was born on

27 February 1949 — .
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Saskatchewan is recognized as the first jurisdiction in North America where a social democratic government was formed (in 1944). Lingenfelter, however, was the first leader of the social democratic party (CCF or NDP) not to become premier.
 

♂ James Litterick . This person's date of birth is known but not their date of death. They were born on

15 July 1901 — ??.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Born in Scotland, Litterick was expelled from the Manitoba legislature in 1940 when the Communist Party was declared illegal, but he had already gone into hiding. Little is known about him after that, but Norman Penner wrote in his book, Canadian Communism, that after the war, Litterick "was expelled from the Party for 'cowardice.'"
 

♂ Avard Longley (61) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 February 1823 — 22 February 1884.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 2

Once elected the MP for Annapolis in 1878, Longley, a Nova Scotia Conservative and advocate for temperance, attempted to have the bar in the House of Commons closed permanently. (Who knew there was a bar in Parliament in the 19th century?) He didn't stand for re-election in 1882 due to poor health and died less than two years later at the age of 61. One can't help but wonder if a little nightly nightcap might have been beneficial to him.
 

♂ James S. Lord (56) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 December 1875 — 8 July 1932.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

The Conservative New Brunswick MLA for Charlotte (1925–1930) held the position as Imperial Kalif (vice president) for the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada.
 

♂ Wally Lorenz . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

At 7 months and 18 days from one election to the next, the Saskatchewan Party's Lorenz holds the distinction of having had the shortest term in the legislature. Elected in the March 2003 by-election in Battleford-Cut Knife, he failed to get the party's no­mi­na­tion in Cut Knife-Turtleford for the gen­er­al election held the following November.
 

♂ Solon E. Low (62) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 January 1900 — 22 December 1962.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Through numerous controversial comments while leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada from 1944 to 1961, Low contributed to his party's reputation for antisemitism. For instance, in a 1947 CBC broadcast, he claimed a "close tie-up between international communism, international finance, and international political Zionism." He repudiated anti-Semitism a decade later but, by then, his party ceased to be seen as a credible threat to replace the Tories.
 

♀ M. Rae M. Luckock (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

15 October 1893 — 24 January 1972.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Along with Agnes Macphail, Luckock is one of the first two women elected to the Ontario Legislature. She held the seat of Bracondale for the CCF from 1943 to 1945.
 

♂ Marcel Lussier (78) years old as of today. This person was born on

30 June 1944 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 1

Lussier has had more luck in life than in politics. A few days before his 78th birthday in June 2022, he won $70 million in Loto-Québec's Lotto-Max.
 

♂ James S. Lynch (±53) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1841 — 22 July 1894.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

The first federal election held in Marquette resulted in a tie, so the return of the writ of election was amended to declare that both Lynch and Angus A. McKay had been duly elected. McKay chose not to run in the following election in which Lynch was defeated by Robert Cunningham, who died five months into his second term.
 

♂ Patrick Lynott . The dates of birth and death for this person are unknown

?? — ??.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Next to nothing is known about Lynott, a New Brunswick independent MLA. He was elected in Madawaska in the 1882 general election but his election was declared void shortly afterwards, and he failed to regain the seat in 1886. However, one can't help but wonder if he was related in any way to James E. Lynott, independent MLA for Charlotte from 1878 to 1886 and speaker of the assembly from 1883 to 1886.
 

♂ J. Sandfield Macdonald (59) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

12 December 1812 — 1 June 1872.
Died in office.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

First premier of Ontario, Macdonald ran as a Conservative provincially but as a Liberal federally.
 

♂ John A. MacDonald (44) years old as of today. This person was born on

25 January 1979 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

This is the third John A. MacDonald to be elected to the Nova Scotia legislature. The first one was a Liberal-Conservative elected in 1916 in Richmond County, and the second one represented the short-lived Farmers' Party in Hants County in 1920. None seem to be related to the first prime minister of Canada, who has never run in a Nova Scotia riding.
 

♂ John M. Macdonald (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 May 1906 — 20 June 1997.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Macdonald was called to the Senate in 1960 at the age of 54, after only one term as the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MLA for Cape Breton North. He was the last senator appointed for life who served his term until he died... at the age of 91.
 

♀ Margaret M. Macdonald (57) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 November 1910 — 3 February 1968.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Macdonald was the first woman from Prince Edward Island elected to the Canadian Parliament. A Progressive Conservative, she was elected in a by-election on May 29, 1961, held after the death of her husband, John A. Macdonald, and held the seat of King's until 1963.
 

♂ Paul W. MacEwan (74) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 April 1943 — 2 May 2017.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 9

MacEwan was the MLA for Cape Breton Nova for nearly 33 years but, during those years, he ran successfully under four different banners: NDP, independent, Cape Breton Labour, and Liberal.
 

♀ Grace W. MacInnis (85) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 July 1905 — 10 July 1991.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 4

MacInnis, NDP MP for Vancouver Kingsway from 1965 to 1974, was the ONLY woman elected to the 28th Parliament in 1968. She was the daughter of the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the late J.S. Woodsworth, and the spouse of the late Angus MacInnis, a CCF MP in several Vancouver-area ridings between 1930 and 1957.
 

♂ Alexander G. MacKay (60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 March 1860 — 25 April 1920.
Died in office.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 8

A Liberal, MacKay served 10 years and 8 months as the Ontario MPP for Grey North from 1902 to 1913, and nearly seven years as the Alberta MLA for Athabasca from 1913 to 1920, dying in office at the age of 60. The Toronto press accused him of leaving Ontario politics because he was unable to get along with his new leader, Newton Rowell.
 

♂ H. Wade MacLauchlan (68) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 December 1954 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Premier of Prince Edward Island from 2015 to 2019, MacLauchlan was the first gay male premier in Canada.
 

♂ Donald Macmaster (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 September 1846 — 3 March 1922.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Macmaster sat as the Ontario Conservative MPP for Glengarry from 1879 to 1882, resigning to get elected to the House of Commons to represent that same riding until his defeat in 1887. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1905 and was elected to the British House of Commons in 1910 as a Conservative, representing the constituency of Chertsey until his death at the age of 75.
 

♀ Agnes C. Macphail (63) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 March 1890 — 13 February 1954.
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 7

The fact that Macphail was the first woman elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1921 is widely known. Less widely known is that she was also the first woman (of two) elected to the Ontario provincial parliament in 1934.
 

♀ Claudy Mailly (±78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 November 1938 — c. 2017.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

I may have prematurely killed off this one-term Progressive Conservative MP for Gatineau (1984–1988) on the weight of one vague reference in Wikipedia but, at the same time, there is really not much about her online these days. Anybody know?
 

♂ Gurbax S. Malhi (73) years old as of today. This person was born on

12 October 1949 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 6

Malhi, a Liberal elected for the first time in 1993 in Bramalea—Gore—Malton, was the first Canadian MP to wear a turban.
 

♂ Gary Malkowski (64) years old as of today. This person was born on

26 July 1958 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Representing York East from 1990 to 1995 as a member of the Ontario NDP, Malkowski is Canada's first deaf parliamentarian and the first deaf parliamentarian in the world to address a legislature in a sign language.
 

♀ Agnès Maltais (66) years old as of today. This person was born on

7 November 1956 — .
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 6

Maltais was the first openly lesbian MNA in Quebec's National Assembly.
 

♂ Ernest C. Manning (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 September 1908 — 19 February 1996.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 9

Leader of the Alberta Social Credit, Manning served as premier for 25 years and 6 months — the longest anyone has occupied that position. He was the father of the founder of the Reform Party of Canada, Preston.
 

♂ Leonard S. Marchand (82) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

16 November 1933 — 3 June 2016.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Marchand was the first person of First Nations status to serve in the federal cabinet (1976–1979).
 

♂ Sylvain Marcoux . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Marcoux is an avowed Québec Neo-Nazi.
 

♀ Pauline Marois (73) years old as of today. This person was born on

29 March 1949 — .
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 8

Marois is, of course, the first woman to become premier of Québec. However, it would be easier to list the ministerial portfolios that she did NOT hold whenever the Parti Québécois was in power. No matter one's position on Québec sovereignty, no one can deny that this woman knows the ins and outs of how government works!
 

♂ Duncan M. Marshall (73) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 September 1872 — 16 January 1946.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 5

The difference a century can make? An Ontarian with more staying power as a Liberal in Alberta than in Ontario! Marshall was the three-term MLA for Olds from 1909 until his defeat in 1921, but the one-term Ontario MPP for Peel from 1934 until his defeat in 1937. Then again, he failed to enter the House of Commons for either an Ontario riding (Muskoka, 1904) or an Alberta riding (East Calgary, 1921).
 

♂ Joseph Martin (70) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 September 1852 — 2 March 1923.
Times presented: 16;   Times elected: 10

Martin was elected to four different legislative assemblies: Manitoba's, Canada's, British Columbia's (where he was premier from 1902 to 1903), and Great Britain's (East St Pancras, 1910 to 1918). As a young adult, he earned the nickname of "Fighting Joe" due to "his quarrelsome nature and his tendency to resort to his fists to settle disputes." It stuck with him until his death.
 

♂ William G. Martin (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 September 1886 — 19 December 1973.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 6

Martin sat as Conservative or Progressive Conservative (post 1942) in two legislatures: in Ontario as the MPP for Brantford (1926–1934) and in Manitoba as the MLA for St Matthews (1958–1966). His exit in 1934 was through defeat at the age of 47 but it was voluntary in 1966 when he retired from politics at the age of 79.
 

♂ C. Vincent Massey (80) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 February 1887 — 30 December 1967.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

First Canadian-born governor general, Massey ran unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party of Canada in Durham in 1925.
 

♀ Roberta C. McAdams (79) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 July 1880 — 16 December 1959.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

McAdams is the second woman elected to the Alberta legislature. She would be considered the first of two if the election in her constituency had been held on the same date as the 1917 general election.
 

♂ J. Stephen McCready (76) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 October 1946 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

McCready is the son of twice Speaker of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, Robert McCready. (This one made me raise an eyebrow simply because I am a friend of his brother!)
 

♀ Jennifer J.G. McCreath . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

McCreath, daughter of former Progressive Conservative MP Peter McCreath, was the first transgender candidate in a federal election in Canada.
 

♀ Alexa A. McDonough (77) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 August 1944 — 15 January 2022.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 8

Daughter of Lloyd Shaw, McDonough was the first woman in Canada to lead a major provincial political party (see Hilda Watson to understand the italicized provincial). I was definitely surprised to learn that she had "a thing" with long-time Progressive Conservative David MacDonald from 1997 to 2004 and even swayed him toward social democracy!
 

♂ Malcolm McFadyen (±44) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 June 1838 — c. 15 April 1883.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

A Prince Edward Island Liberal, McFadyen failed three times to get elected — federally in 1878 and provincially in 1876 and 1879 — before winning one of the two seats for Kings 4th in the legislature in the 1882 general election. According to Blair Weeks in Minding the House, "Malcolm McFadyen died ca. 1883," which would suggest that he died in office about a year after finally being elected. However, Weeks does not explcitly say that and no by-election seems to have been called to replace McFadyen even though the next general election on the Island was only held three years later. That said, although by-elections were far more frequent in the 19th century than they are today, calling them was entirely at the discretion of the government, so given that the 29th Legislature was Conservative and McFadyen was Liberal, it is possible that the seat was left vacant.
 

♂ Thomas D'Arcy McGee (42) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 April 1825 — 7 April 1868.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

One of the Fathers of Confederation, McGee remains to this day the only Canadian politician to have been assassinated while in office.
 

♂ Edward R. McGill (84) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 September 1912 — 3 December 1996.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

McGill was the Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA for Brandon West from 1969 to 1981. His mild demeanour in the legislature earned him the ironic nickname "Mad Dog McGill."
 

♂ Arnold J. McGrath (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 June 1912 — 24 August 1967.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Elected as the Liberal MLA for Cranbrook at age 27 in an October 1939 by-election, McGrath was the youngest member of the British Columbia legislature during his term of service. He was defeated in the 1941 general election.
 

♂ Thomas McGreevy (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 July 1825 — 2 January 1897.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 8

Expelled from the Commons for corruption on 29 September 1891, McGreevy, a Conservative, managed to return for about a year upon the death of his replacement, John Hearn (1827–1894), also a Conservative. However, he was beaten in 1896 for his first and only time, as he died about six months later at age 71.
 

♀ Hazel A. McIsaac (79) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 April 1933 — 14 December 2012.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Liberal MHA for St George's from 1975 to 1979, McIsaac was the first woman elected to the assembly after Newfoundland entered the Confederation in 1949. A passenger and car ferry operating between Long Island and Little Bay Islands is named after her.
 

♂ Harrison A. McKeown (68) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 November 1863 — 10 July 1932.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 6

New Brunswicker McKeown ran as a Con­ser­va­tive provincially but as a Liberal federally. However, he was never elected as a Liberal and served six discontinuous terms in the legislature.
 

♀ Louise C. McKinney (62) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 September 1868 — 10 July 1931.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

McKinney was the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire. She served as the independant Alberta MLA in Claresholm (1917–1921), being narrowly defeated when she ran under the UFA banner.
 

♀ Audrey M. McLaughlin (86) years old as of today. This person was born on

7 November 1936 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Leader of the federal New Democratic Party from 1989 to 1995, McLaughlin was the first female leader of a political party represented in the House of Commons, as well as the first federal party leader to represent a riding in a Canadian territory.
 

♂ Bruce McLaughlin (77) years old as of today. This person was born on

15 January 1946 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 3

With changes in technology and practices, some people can claim that a job they once had no longer exists today. But McLaughlin can claim it's the town he represented in the Legislature of the Northwest Territories that no longer exists, as Pine Point was closed in 1988 — a year after the mine producing lead and zinc ores was closed.
 

♀ A. Anne McLellan (72) years old as of today. This person was born on

31 August 1950 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

McLellan's narrow victories — her first in Edmonton Northwest with a plurality of only 12 votes — earned her the nickname "Landslide Annie" in Canadian political circles.
 

♂ Arthur Meighen (86) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

16 June 1874 — 5 August 1960.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 6

In 1941, Canada's 9th prime minister returned to the helm of the Conservative Party that had been badly beaten under the banner of "National Government" in the 1940 general election. Trying to gain back a seat in the House of Commons, Meighen ran in a by-election on February 9, 1942, in the Conservative stronghold of York South. The CCF's Joseph Noseworthy handily defeated him. By the end of that year, the old Conservative Party became the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Manitoba's Liberal Progressive premier, John Bracken.
 

♂ Réal Ménard (60) years old as of today. This person was born on

13 May 1962 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 6

Bloc Québécois MP from 1993 to 2009, Ménard was the second after Svend Robinson (1952– ) to come out as gay.
 

♂ Donald Meredith (58) years old as of today. This person was born on

13 July 1964 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

As the federal Conservative candidate in Toronto Centre in 2008, Meredith lost spectacularly against the then-Liberal Bob Rae (1948– ), which merited him a nomination to the Senate two years later. However, he had to resign on May 10, 2017, following allegations that he had groomed a teenager for two years, starting when the girl was 16.
 

♂ L. Petrie Meston (47) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 March 1916 — 22 November 1963.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Meston handily won the new riding of Three Hills for the Alberta Social Credit in the 1963 general election, but he died five months later — before the assembly's first session.
 

♂ Simonie Michael (±75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

c. 1933 — c. November 2008.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

The federal government, wanting to track the Inuit but finding their traditional names too difficult, implemented a numbered disc system in the 1940s. As such, according to the government, Michael's surname was E7–551. Michael is widely credited for prompting the government to pass a motion authorising Project Surname to replace number-names with patrilineal family surnames.
 

♂ Yves Michaud (93) years old as of today. This person was born on

13 February 1930 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

It could be said that controversy and this Michaud is almost synonymous. His least controversial statements from the 1990s include calling the English language a scar and disfigurement on the face of Montreal, and describing the language situation in Québec as a cancer that occasionally goes into remission.
 

♂ Ricardo Miranda (46) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 August 1976 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Elected in 2015 as the NDP MLA for Calgary-Cross, Miranda married his partner Christopher Brown on December 28, 2018, with then-premier Rachel Notley officiating.
 

♂ Humphrey Mitchell (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 September 1894 — 1 August 1950.
Died in office.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

Unopposed by the Mackenzie King Liberals, Mitchell was elected as a Labour MP in a 1931 by-election in Hamilton East and generally voted with the Liberals. In fact, he refused to join the CCF the following year and ran again as Labour in 1935. But while the Liberals did not oppose him, the CCF did, resulting in the seat going to the Conservatives.
 

♀ Albanie Morin (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 April 1921 — 30 September 1976.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Morin was one of first three women from Quebec elected to the Canadian Parliament. She was the Liberal MP for Louis-Hébert (1972–1976) until she died in office during her second term, at the age of 55.
 

♂ Joseph-Octave Morin (38) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 April 1882 — 13 October 1920.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Morin was reported missing on October 13, 1920 in Villemontel (Abitibi region), but his body was not found until the following spring. He was no longer an MLA at the time of his death.
 

♂ George M. Morrison . This person's date of birth is known but not their date of death. They were born on

28 August 1902 — ??.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Morrison served only one term as the Liberal MLA for Cape Breton South from 1937 until his defeat in the following election in 1941. He was appointed County Court judge in October 1946, a position he held until his retirement in 1976. In 1984, when he would have been 82 years old, he was known to be living on Whitney Avenue in Sydney, but then all trace of him — at least online — vanish after that. Would anybody know when this man died?
 

♂ Jamie Moses . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Moses was one of the first three Black Canadian MLAs elected in Manitoba in 2019. In October 2021, he introduced a private member's bill recognizing August 1 of every year as Emancipation Day in Manitoba. The bill was passed unanimously.
 

♂ Douglas L. Mowat (63) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

16 May 1929 — 11 August 1992.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Mowat was the first quadriplegic using a wheelchair elected to a Canadian legislature. He was the British Columbia Social Credit MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain from 1983 to 1991, except from October 3, 1989 to February 14, 1990, when he sat as Independent Social Credit "to spur an 'open and realistic assessment' of [Premier] Vander Zalm's continued leadership."
 

♂ Oliver Mowat (82) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 July 1820 — 19 July 1903.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 7

At 23 years, 8 months and 26 days, Mowat, an Ontario Liberal and one of the Fathers of Confederation, holds the record for the person having served as the province's premier the longest.
 

♂ James Murdock (77) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

15 August 1871 — 15 May 1949.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Murdock failed to enter Parliament in Toronto South in 1921, so Archibald McCoig agreed to cede his safe Liberal seat of Kent to him in exchange of being called to the Senate. Murdock won the seat by acclamation. Then, in 1923, while Minister of Labour, he used information obtained as a member of the Cabinet and withdrew funds from the Home Bank of Canada a day or two before it collapsed. Outraged, Edward Porter, the Conservative MP for Hastings West since 1902, resigned in protest to force a by-election in his riding on this matter, but lost. Murdock's comeuppance only came when he spectacularly failed to get re-elected in Toronto—High Park in the 1925 and 1926 general elections, meaning that he has never really been elected.
 

♂ George H. Murray (67) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 June 1861 — 6 January 1929.
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 7

A Liberal, Murray was the eighth premier of Nova Scotia for 26 years and 188 days, the longest unbroken tenure for a head of government in Canadian history.
 

♂ Henry Nathan (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 September 1842 — 5 February 1914.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Liberal MP for Victoria (British Columbia) from 1871 to 1874, Nathan was the first Jewish Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons. The second one only came 43 years later when the Montreal Liberal Samuel Jacobs was elected in George-Étienne Cartier in 1917.
 

♂ Ted Nebbeling (±65) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1944 — 28 October 2009.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

The British Columbia Liberal MLA for West Vancouver-Garibaldi from 1996 to 2005 was one of the world's first serving cabinet member to be married to a person of the same sex. He died of colon cancer and his husband, Jan Holmberg, died a bit more than a year later, also of colon cancer.
 

♀ Dorise W. Nielsen (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 July 1902 — 9 December 1980.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Nielsen was not only the first woman from Saskatchewan elected to the Canadian Parliament; she was also the first member of the Communist Party to be elected to the Commons — although the party went by various names at the time, such as "Unity" and "United Reform Movement." She represented North Battleford from 1940 until her defeat in the 1945 general election. In 1957, she moved to China and, in 1962, she became a Chinese citizen.
 

♂ Charles Nolin (69) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 May 1837 — 28 January 1907.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Nolin, Manitoba Métis and political rival of Louis Riel, sat nearly five years from 1874 as the MLA for Ste Anne in the new province's legislative assembly. Later moving to present-day Saskatchewan, he was elected at age 54 as the MLA for Batoche in the legislative assembly of the North-West Territories, but his election was contested two months later and Charles-Eugène Boucher, who was half his age at 27, replaced him.
 

♂ Jacques-Antoine Normandin (71) years old as of today. This person was born on

17 June 1951 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

An independent candidate in Brome—Missisquoi in Québec's 2008 general election, Normandin claimed to be exempt from paying taxes by virtue of having renounced his citizenship. He came last in a field of six candidates with only 173 votes and his agent was later fined for not filing an election expenses report.
 

♂ Peter J. North (62) years old as of today. This person was born on

23 August 1960 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

North, first a new democrat and then an independent, was the first MPP of First Nations descent ever elected to Ontario's provincial legislature. He represented the riding of Elgin from 1990 to 1999.
 

♂ Samuel E. Oosterhoff (25) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 August 1997 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Oosterhoff, an Ontario Progressive Conservative, was only 19 when he was first elected in a by-election in Niagara West—Glanbrook on November 17, 2016, making him the youngest Ontario MPP to ever be elected. This record was previously held by Reid Scott (1926–2016) who was 21 when he was first elected in Beaches in 1948.
 

♂ David Orchard (72) years old as of today. This person was born on

28 June 1950 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Although never elected, Orchard, describing himself as a red Tory whose ideological idols include John Diefenbaker, has been a prominent op­po­nent of free trade since the 1980s. Running twice for the leadership of the Progressive Con­ser­va­tive Party of Canada, his second bid in 2003 is remembered for the deal he struck with the winner of that race, Peter MacKay, that included a review of free trade and, per­haps more significantly, "no joint candidates with the Canadian Alliance." By the end of that year, the PCs had merged with the Alliance; Orchard ran unsuccessfully for the Liberals in Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River in the 2008 general election.
 

♂ William Oxley . The dates of birth and death for this person are unknown

?? — ??.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Oxley is a perfect example of a one-term MLA (Cumberland County. 1890–1894) whose vital statistics are hopelessly irrecuperable except perhaps by a full-time historian with access to all sorts of archives.
 

♂ Burt W. Paulin (67) years old as of today. This person was born on

13 August 1955 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

At the age of 18 in May 1974, Paulin was the youngest Canadian in history to be elected a school trustee. He was 47 years old when he was first elected to the New Brunswick legislature.
 

♂ Artur Pawlowski (49) years old as of today. This person was born on

28 March 1973 — .
Times presented: 0;   Times elected: 0

A Polish-Canadian Protestant pastor and leader of The Independence Party in Alberta since September 2022, Pawlowski can best be described as a lover of freedom... as long as you're not gay. And don't believe in a woman's right to choose. And don't believe that wearing a mask during a pandemic is a good idea. And you only practice his kind of Christianity. In other words, freedom is only for himself and for those who agree completely with him. Unconditional love indeed!
 

♀ Jean Payne (80) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

12 May 1939 — 4 March 2020.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Payne was one of the two first women from Newfoundland and Labrador elected to the Canadian Parliament. A Liberal, she represented St John's West for one term (1993–1997).
 

♂ Lester B. Pearson (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 April 1897 — 27 December 1972.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 8

With his government programs and policies, together with his groundbreaking work at the United Nations and in international diplomacy, including his role in ending the Suez Crisis, Pearson is considered among the most influential Canadians of the 20th century and is ranked among the greatest Canadian prime ministers. However, he never led a majority government and his beginning as Liberal leader was less illustrious, for instance, asking John Diefenbaker to resign in 1957 and let his party return to power without an election due to the recent economic downturn.
 

♀ Lena E.M. Pedersen (±83) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1940 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Pedersen was the first woman elected to the legislature of the Northwest Territories. She represented Central Arctic from 1970 to 1975. Her grandson, Calvin A. Pedersen, briefly represented Kugluktuk in the Nunavut legislature (2020–2021).
 

♂ Henry G. Pineo (44) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 March 1830 — 12 May 1874.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Pineo was one of only two Confederation candidates elected to the Nova Scotia legis­la­ture in 1867. He was also the consul for the United States, Sweden and Norway —hold on to your hat! — ...at Pugwash.
 

♂ Louis Plamondon (79) years old as of today. This person was born on

31 July 1943 — .
In office.
Times presented: 12;   Times elected: 12

Plamondon is the brother of Luc, the celebrated Québec lyricist.
 

♂ Moïse Plante (±62) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1830 — 21 March 1892.
Died in office.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

A Québec Conservative, Plante died 13 days after being elected MLA of Beauharnois in the 1892 general election, at the age of about 62. He never took his seat.
 

♂ J. David Popescu (±76) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1947 — .
Times presented: 13;   Times elected: 0

There should be enforceable laws preventing people like him from running for office. Why? Because he has been found guilty of willfully promoting hatred.
 

♀ Gladys M. Porter (73) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 August 1893 — 30 April 1967.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

A Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative, Porter was the first woman to become mayor in the Maritime provinces (Kentville, 1946) as well as the first woman elected to a provincial legislature in the Maritimes (Kings North, 1960). She died in office towards the end of her second term, at the age of 73.
 

♂ Walter V. Powers (59) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 July 1895 — 8 November 1954.
Died in office.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

Failing to win one of the two seats for Victoria in the 1939, 1944 and 1948 New Brunswick general elections, the (Progressive)-Conservative Powers finally got one in 1952. Named Speaker of the Assembly in 1954 after the death of Elmer Kennedy, he, too, died in office — two years after being elected. He was 67.
 

♂ P.E. James (Jim) Prentice (60) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 July 1956 — 13 October 2016.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

The Alberta Progressive Conservative disclaimed his seat on the night the NDP put an end to his party's 44-year hold on power. He was killed along with three others about 17 months later when the aircraft in which they were travelling crashed shortly after taking off from Kelowna, British Columbia.
 

♂ John Queen (64) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 February 1882 — 15 July 1946.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

Queen was one of the three convicted criminals (for his involvement in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) who was elected in the 1920 Manitoba general election. He was still in prison when elected.
 

♂ Michael F.C. Radcliffe (78) years old as of today. This person was born on

16 December 1944 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 1

In 1912, Radcliffe's father, Leslie, intended to migrate from the U.K. to Mexico but decided against it due to safety concerns related to the Mexican Revolution, but Leslie's brother Charles — Radcliffe's uncle — went ahead. Alas, he was on board the RMS Titanic and his body was never found.
 

♂ F.J. Jack Ramsay (85) years old as of today. This person was born on

23 August 1937 — .
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 2

Elected as the Reform MP for Crowfoot in the 1993 federal election, Ramsay was convicted in November 1999 of the attempted rape of a 14-year-old Cree girl 30 years previously while he was an RCMP officer. He failed to get re-elected as an independent in the 2000 election.
 

♀ Sarah K. Ramsland (81) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

19 July 1882 — 4 April 1964.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Ramsland was the first woman elected to the Saskatchewan legislature. A Liberal, she represented Pelly from 1919 to 1925.
 

♂ Jaroslaw (Slaw) Rebchuk (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

10 February 1907 — 15 January 1996.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

A Winnipeg municipal politician known as the "Mayor of the North End," Rebchuk ran twice unsuccessfully (in 1958 and in 1969) for a seat in the Manitoba legislature. He was famed for his "Rebchukisms," such as "You've buttered your bread — now lie in it" or "A verbal agreement is not worth the paper it's written on."
 

♂ Auguste Renaud (61) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 October 1835 — 7 July 1897.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

Renaud was the first francophone from the Maritimes to sit in the federal parliament. A Liberal born in France but living in New Brunswick, he served only one term representing Kent from 1867 to 1872, when he was defeated by another Liberal, Robert Cutler. (Yes, that could happen back then.)
 

♀ Margaret I. Rideout (86) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

16 June 1923 — 12 May 2010.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

Rideout was the widow of the Liberal MP for Westmorland, Sherwood. She won his seat in a by-election on November 9, 1964, thus becoming the first woman from New Brunswick elected to the Canadian Parlia­ment until her defeat in 1968. Twenty years later, George, Margaret and Sherwood's son, also won the seat which by then had been renamed Moncton.
 

♂ Robert Ringma (85) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 June 1928 — 31 March 2014.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

A one-term Reform MP for Nanaimo—Cowichan, Ringma opined in 1996 [not a typo] that store owners should be free to move gay and black people "to the back of the shop," or even to fire them, if the presence of that individual offended a bigoted customer.
 

♂ John P. Robarts (65) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 January 1917 — 18 October 1982.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Robarts committed suicide. Premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971, he had been suffering from depression as a result of the 1977 suicide of his son Timothy and a series of debilitating strokes. He had divorced in the early 1970s and remarried to a woman 28 years his junior.
 

♀ Brenda M. Robertson (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 May 1929 — 23 September 2020.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Robertson was the first woman elected to the New Brunswick legislature. A Progres­sive Conservative, she served from October 1967 until being called to the Senate in December 1984.
 

♂ James E. Robertson (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 October 1840 — 30 October 1915.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 4

Although simultaneously holding a seat provincially and federally was allowed until 1874, it was zero-tolerance by 1882, as Robertson was still deemed a member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly due to a procedural error that led to his resignation not properly being registered in the PEI Assembly. That left him without a seat at either level until he won again in King's County federally in 1887.
 

♂ Honoré Robillard (79) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

12 January 1835 — 13 June 1914.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Robillard was the first francophone elected to the Ontario legislature. A Conservative, he defeated his own brother, the Liberal Alexandre Robillard. Honoré represented Russell for one term (1883 to 1886), and then served two terms as the City of Ottawa MP (1887 to 1896), while Alexandre succeeded Honoré in Russell in 1886. (Either the Liberals and the Conservatives were practically interchangeable back then, or discussions often got heated in this family!)
 

♂ Svend J. Robinson (71) years old as of today. This person was born on

4 March 1952 — .
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

In spring 1988, Robinson was the first Canadian member of Parliament to come out as gay.
 

♀ F. Edith Rogers (70) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 April 1876 — 19 April 1947.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Rogers was the first woman elected to the Manitoba legislature. A Liberal, she was one of the MLAs for Winnipeg from 1920 to 1932.
 

♀ Tilly J. Rolston (66) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 February 1887 — 12 October 1953.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

Rolston was the first woman in Canada to be appointed a cabinet minister with port­folio and the first woman in British Colum­bia to be given a state funeral. MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, she served as a Con­ser­va­tive, Coalition (Liberal / Conservative), and Social Credit member.
 

♂ Arthur W. Ross (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 March 1846 — 25 March 1901.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Ross's son John was one of the victims in the Titanic sinking in 1912, but the former Manitoba MLA and MP had died 11 years earlier at the age of 55.
 

♂ William C. Ross (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 May 1911 — 4 June 1998.
Times presented: 15;   Times elected: 0

Ross legally changed his name from Zuken in 1936, in part to protect his family from anti-Communist harassment.
 

♂ Joseph B. Salsberg (95) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

5 November 1902 — 8 February 1998.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 4

After losing his seat of St. Andrew in the 1955 Ontaro general election, Salsberg left the Labour-Progressive (Communist) Party after witnessing first-hand the extent of the anti-Semitic campaign against Jews in the USSR.
 

♂ Benoît Sauvageau (42) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

22 November 1963 — 28 August 2006.
Died in office.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

The Bloc Québécois MP died in a car accident while on his way to a constituency event. Some early media reports suggested his wife had called 9-1-1 because he had allegedly threatened to commit suicide before leaving their home, but a coroner's report in August 2007 confirmed that Sauvageau had been distracted by his cellphone when, for no apparent reason, his car crashed into the back of a tow truck that was stopped on the side of the road.
 

♀ Jeanne M. Sauvé (70) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 April 1922 — 26 January 1993.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Sauvé was not only one of first three women from Quebec elected to the Canadian Parliament (Ahuntsic, 1972–1979; Laval-des-Rapides, 1979–1984); she was also the first woman Speaker of the House of Commons (1980–1984) and first woman Governor General of Canada (1984–1990). She died three years after leaving the GG position.
 

♂ Marlin Schmidt (44) years old as of today. This person was born on

16 October 1978 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Schmidt, Alberta NDP MLA for Edmonton-Gold Bar, got himself in hot water when opposing the United Conservative Party's proposal to change the referendum law, which he said that even the late British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, would have opposed. But where he might have gone too far is when he added that he "count[ed] on enjoying the fact that Margaret Thatcher is still dead" and regretted she had died "probably 30 years too late."
 

♂ Lawrence R. Shaben (73) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

20 March 1935 — 6 September 2008.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

In addition to being the first Muslim minister in any cabinet in Canada, Shaben, an Alberta Progressive Conservative, was one of the survivors of the plane crash that killed the NDP leader at the time, Grant Notley.
 

♂ John A. Sheppard (±71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

1 September 1875 — c. 1947.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

When a royal commission found Sheppard guilty on two charges of receiving money in return for liquor licenses, he resigned to request a by-election "to give him the opportunity of vindicating his character by an appeal to the people." The gamble didn't pay off: John Chisholm narrowly defeated him in that by-election.
 

♀ Caroline Simard (48) years old as of today. This person was born on

5 July 1974 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Simard forever has bragging rights for unseating a premier, even though she herself got defeated in the following general election.
 

♂ George W. Simpson (47) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

10 December 1858 — 21 October 1906.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Simpson had been selected as the candidate for Queen's when the next federal election would be held, but the Liberal died well before the election was held and while still sitting in the PEI legislature. He was only 47 years old.
 

♂ E. Frederick Singer (62) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

19 July 1889 — 10 January 1952.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Singer, an Ontario Liberal-Conservative, became the first Jewish person to sit in the legislative assembly when he was elected in 1929 in Toronto St Andrews.
 

♀ F. Ann Sloat (89) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 July 1928 — 21 November 2017.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

The legislature was not in session during Sloat's time as Progressive Conservative MPP for Wentworth North, and she was defeated in the 1985 general election. Therefore, she never took her seat.
 

♂ Joseph R. (Joey) Smallwood (90) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 December 1900 — 17 December 1991.
Times presented: 8;   Times elected: 8

The first premier of Newfoundland when it joined Canada in 1949, Smallwood is sometimes referred to as the "Last Father of Confederation."
 

♂ D. Edward Smith (94) years old as of today. This person was born on

21 October 1928 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

Smith was the Social Credit member of the British Columbia legislature for North Peace River from 1966 to 1979. He was the speaker of the house from March 1976 but was forced to resign from that position in March 1978, when he was criticized following the appointment of his former secretary, Barbara Pennock, to the auditor general's office. He married Miss Pennock the following August.
 

♀ Mary Ellen Smith (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 October 1861 — 3 May 1933.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Serving as MLA for Vancouver City from 1918 to 1928, Smith was the first woman elected in the British Columbia legislature after the death of her husband, Ralph Smith, who was a supporter of women's suffrage. She was also the first female cabinet minister and the first female Speaker in the British Empire.
 

♂ Murray R. Smith (±72) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1930 — 15 December 2002.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Smith was the husband of prominent Manitoba NDP minister from 1981 to 1988, Muriel Smith. When he ran in the riding of River Heights in the 1986 general election, an article in the 17 March 1986 issue of the Winnipeg Free Press described him as a retired teacher, aged 55, and "Mr. Muriel Smith." He was defeated by the Liberal leader, Sharon Carstairs. In the next general election two years later, it was Muriel Smith's turn to be defeated in the neighbouring riding of Osborne by another rising Liberal, Reg Alcock.
 

♂ William Smithe (44) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

30 June 1842 — 28 March 1887.
Died in office.
Times presented: 7;   Times elected: 7

The seventh premier of British Columbia added the "e" to his name to distinguish himself from another member in the legislature named William Smith — the second premier of the province who, not one to be outdone, changed his name to "Love of the Universe" (or Amor de Cosmos).
 

♂ Robert E. Sommers (89) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

3 January 1911 — 28 October 2000.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

British Columbia Social Credit MLA for Rossland-Trail from 1952 to 1958, Sommers was the first cabinet minister in the British Commonwealth to serve a term in prison for accepting bribes in connection with his office.
 

♂ Nelson C. Spencer (66) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 December 1876 — 30 September 1943.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

A New Brunswick-born Conservative, Spencer opted not to seek a third term as the MLA for Medicine Hat in the legislative assembly in order to run (without success) in a June 1921 by-election in the federal riding of the same name, which had been called following the death of Alberta's second premier and current federal Unionist/Conservative minister, Arthur Sifton. Some time after he was badly defeated by the Progressive Party's Robert Gardiner, Spencer moved to British Columbia and was elected in 1928 as a Conservative MLA for Vancouver City, choosing not to re-offer in 1933 given his party's total disarray.
 

♂ Robert L. Stanfield (89) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 April 1914 — 16 December 2003.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 10

A Progressive Conservative, Stanfield was Nova Scotia's 17th premier from 1956 to 1967 and the leader federal PCs from 1967 to 1975. A respected statesmen, he was one of only several people granted the style "The Right Honourable" despite not being entitled by virtue of the office he held. He is sometimes referred to as "the best prime minister Canada never had."
 

♂ Joseph E. Stauffer (42) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

29 October 1874 — 10 April 1917.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Stauffer, Alberta Liberal MLA for Didsbury, was killed in action in Europe during World War I. Perhaps related to his death or simply a coincidence, the Election Act in Alberta was amended prior to the June 1917 general election to stipulate that any member of the 3rd assembly would be re-elected by acclamation if he joined for wartime service.
 

♂ Maitland B. Steinkopf (58) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

10 September 1912 — 22 November 1970.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Progressive Conservative MLA for River Heights from 1962 to 1966, Steinkopf was the first Jewish minister in the Manitoba cabinet. He served only one term but ran for election twice: the second time was due to his resignation in 1964 over a controversial land transaction, but he was re-elected in a by-election in September.
 

♂ Max Steinkopf (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 March 1881 — 10 May 1935.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Steinkopf was the first Jewish lawyer on the Prairies. He was an unsuccesful Progressive Party candidate in Winnipeg in the 1927 general election. However, his son Maitland would serve as the Progressive Conservative member for River Heights from 1962 to 1966, but was no longer there to see his son's accomplishment.
 

♂ Henry H. Stevens (94) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 December 1878 — 14 June 1973.
Times presented: 10;   Times elected: 7

A long-time Conservative, Stevens formed the Reconstruction Party in 1934 because he argued for drastic economic reform and government intervention in the economy, but the government of Richard Bennett refused to implement those policies. His new party got 8.75% of the popular vote nationwide in the 1935 general election but he was the only one to win his seat of Kootenay East. He returned to the Conservatives in 1938.
 

♂ Sinclair M. Stevens (89) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

11 February 1927 — 30 November 2016.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

A prominent figure in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Stevens vigorously opposed the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party. He became the leader of the Progressive Canadian Party in 2007 and served in that position until his death at the age of 89.
 

♀ Belinda Stronach (56) years old as of today. This person was born on

2 May 1966 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Stronach shares more in common with Scott Brison than the fact they both crossed to the Liberal Party of Canada (Stronach in 2005 and Brison in 2003). It's the fact they both sought the leadership of another party before crossing over — Stronach for the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada in 2004, and Brison for the moribond Progressive Conservative Party in 2003. Stephen Harper won against Stronach while Peter MacKay won against Brison.
 

♂ Allen B. Sulatycky (84) years old as of today. This person was born on

13 June 1938 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

After the resignation of Progressive Conservative Hugh Horner from the federal seat of Jasper—Edson to successfully run for the provincial party in Lac Ste Anne in the 1967 Alberta general election, Douglas Caston unsurprisingly won in the by-election that following November against Sulatycky, a Liberal. But the surprise came when the PCs endorsed two candidates for the new riding of Rocky Mountain in the 1968 federal election — Caston and someone named Hugh Gourlay — which led Sulatycky to victory with less than 38% of the votes against the combined 48% for the PCs (with Caston coming third). This Liberal anomaly ended in 1972, however, when a future prime minister soundly defeated Sulatycky in the general election.
 

♂ John P. Sullivan (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

23 April 1843 — 30 September 1898.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

On September 9, 1873, Sullivan, a Prince Edward Island Conservative, married Ellen MacDonald. But she died, so on July 17, 1877, he married Helen MacDonald. They had one daughter and, yes, they named her Ellen. (You can't make up stories like that!)
 

♂ Joseph Tait (71) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

21 October 1839 — 18 March 1911.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Tait died at age 71 after falling down an elevator shaft and fracturing his hip. He had not been an Ontario Liberal MPP for nearly 17 years at the time of his death.
 

♂ Clive Tanner (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 January 1934 — 9 September 2022.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

Tanner served one term in the Yukon legislative assembly as the MLA for Whitehorse North from 1970 to 1974, at the time when it was still non-partisan. Living in British Columbia by the 1980s, he served as the Liberal MLA for Saanich North and the Islands from 1991 to 1996, not offering for a second term.
 

♂ Nathaniel Teed . The date of birth for this person is unknown

?? — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Teed is Saskatchewan's first openly gay MLA.
 

♂ Maurice Tessier (91) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 December 1913 — 9 February 2005.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 2

In what was known as the "double mandate" until its abolishment about seven years into Confederation, one could be elected to the provincial legislature as well as the House of Commons. But well into the 20th century, nothing prevented someone from being elected at the municipal as well as the provincial levels — at least in Québec. Hence, Tessier was both mayor and Liberal MNA for Rimouski from 1966 to 1969, although he continued as MNA until 1973.
 

♂ W. Colin Thatcher (84) years old as of today. This person was born on

25 August 1938 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative MLA for Thunder Creek, was convicted in October 1984 of murdering his ex-wife.
 

♂ W. Ross Thatcher (54) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

24 May 1917 — 22 July 1971.
Died in office.
Times presented: 9;   Times elected: 7

Thatcher, the former Saskatchewan premier, died in office one month after his government was defeated in the 1971 general election. However, perhaps more interesting is what father and son Colin share in common, and no, the elder did not kill his ex-wife! It is that when the elder was first elected as MP in 1945, he did so under the CCF banner; by the 1957 election, he had become a Liberal. Similarly, Colin was first elected as an MLA as a Liberal; two years later, he crossed to the Progressive Conservatives. So in that sense, like father, like son.
 

♀ Carole Théberge (69) years old as of today. This person was born on

14 December 1953 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Two days after her electoral defeat, during the last ministers' council of the former government, what Théberge said to journalists summarized well her bitterness: "The people of Lévis are going to miss me."
 

♂ Réjean Thomas (67) years old as of today. This person was born on

19 June 1955 — .
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Thomas is a doctor based in Montréal best known for his commitment to people with AIDS. Born in Tracadie, New Brunswick, many "back home" were surprised when he chose to run for the Parti Québecois in the 1994 general election. He came in second, short 641 votes out of a total of 31,833, counting the 683 that were rejected.
 

♀ Manitok C. Thompson (±68) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1955 — .
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Thompson was the first woman elected to the Nunavut legislature. In fact, she was the only woman elected to the territory's first assembly... in 1999!
 

♂ Chris Tibbs (45) years old as of today. This person was born on

8 April 1977 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

The base annual salary of a Newfoundland and Labrador MHA is about $95,000. It seems that's not enough for Tibbs, who took a leave of absence in the summer of 2022 to work as a paramedic in Alberta in the oil and gas sector.
 

♂ John Tobin (±59) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1810 — 9 June 1869.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Tobin died by accidentally shooting himself in his own garden. He was a Nova Scotia MLA for Halifax Township from 1855 to 1859 (20th assembly) and for Halifax County Western Division from 1859 to 1867 (22nd and 23rd assemblies) but was no longer an MLA at the time of his death, as he had chosen instead to run federally in 1867 but had failed to secure one of the seats for Halifax.
 

♂ John C. Turmel (72) years old as of today. This person was born on

22 February 1951 — .
Times presented: 91;   Times elected: 0

After 91 runs both federally and provincially since 1979, death is likely the only thing that will stop Turmel from trying again. As of 2023, he has run against more than 100 profiled individuals in this database, mostly in Ontario. His brother Raymond (c. 1952– ) was also a perennial candidate from 1981 to 2000 but cannot in any way be compared to John.
 

♀ Nycole Turmel (80) years old as of today. This person was born on

1 September 1942 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Turmel is the first and only non-Liberal to have represented Hull—(Aylmer) federally since the riding was created in 1917. During her single mandate (2011–2015), she served as the interim leader of the NDP following the death of Jack Layton.
 

♂ Josh Underhay (±35) years old at the time of death. This person's date of birth is only an estimate but their actual date of death is known. Those dates were

c. 1984 — 19 April 2019.
Times presented: 0;   Times elected: 0

Underhay was supposed to be the Green Party of Prince Edward Island candidate in Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park in the 2019 general election, but he was killed in a canoeing accident along with his 6-year-old son four days before election day.
 

♂ Thomas H. Uphill (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

26 June 1874 — 17 February 1962.
Times presented: 12;   Times elected: 11

Representing for nearly 40 years the riding of Fernie in the B.C. legislature as a labour MLA (under some banner or another by that name), Uphill declined to join in 1933 the provincial chapter of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation because he viewed it as too conservative.
 

♀ Angela Vautour (62) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 April 1960 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

In what was dubbed the "NDP breakthrough" in Atlantic Canada in the 1997 federal election, Vautour won what was considered the safest Liberal seat in New Brunswick — so safe that Jean Chrétien had run for it in a December 1990 by-election after he had become leader. Except that, to everyone's surprise, Vautour defeated Dominic LeBlanc, son of Roméo-Adrien LeBlanc, former minister and Governor General at the time. But then she had a falling out with the NDP and joined the Progressive Conservatives in September 1999. Her constituents didn't follow her, and LeBlanc handily defeated her in the 2000 federal election.
 

♂ Peter J. Veniot (72) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

4 October 1863 — 6 July 1936.
Died in office.
Times presented: 13;   Times elected: 11

A Liberal, Veniot was the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick, from 1923 to 1925. After losing the premiership in 1925 to John Baxter, he won the federal seat for Gloucester in the 1926 general election, dying in office 10 years later at the age of 72.
 

♂ John P. Vrooman (63) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

25 February 1860 — 20 August 1923.
Died in office.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

Vrooman was elected Liberal MPP for Lennox in the 1923 Ontario general election, but he died two months later, aged 63, never taking his seat.
 

♂ D. James Walding (69) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

9 May 1937 — 23 April 2007.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 5

A disgruntled Manitoba NDP backbencher, Walding brought down his own government in 1988 by voting against the budget. A majority government had never before been defeated by a vote from one of its own.
 

♂ Mellville H. Watkins (87) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

15 May 1932 — 2 April 2020.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Watkins was one of the founders of The Waffle, a radical wing of Canada's NDP in the late 1960s and early 1970s that es­poused Canadian nationalism and solidarity with Quebec's sovereignty movement.
 

♀ Hilda P. Watson (75) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 January 1922 — 14 July 1997.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Watson was the first woman leader of a political party in Canada (and the Yukon). The 1978 general election was the first partisan election in the territory. While her Progressive Conservative Party won a majority government, she herself lost her seat in Kluane by 38 votes while an independent conservative candidate won 49. Perhaps that is why we forget that she was the first woman to lead a party?
 

♂ Martin K. Weiche (90) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 January 1921 — 2 September 2011.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 0

Yes, in the 1968 federal election, a full-fledged Nazi ran in the Ontario riding of London East. But the good news is that he obtained only 89 votes, or 0.28%
 

♂ Walter C. Weir (55) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

7 June 1929 — 17 April 1985.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 4

It is difficult not to think of Weir, a Progressive Conservative and 15th premier of Manitoba, as anything but a sore loser. Upon the defeat of his government on Election Night 1969, Weir told his supporters, "The people have spoken. And the people are wrong."
 

♂ Edward C. Whelan (88) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

6 August 1919 — 11 December 2007.
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 6

Edward was a social-democrat in the Saskatchewan legislature, whereas his brother Eugene and his niece Susan — Eugene's daughter — were Ontario Liberals in Parliament.
 

♀ Charlotte E. Whitton (78) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

8 March 1896 — 25 January 1975.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 0

Whitton was mayor of Ottawa from 1951 to 1955 and was an unsuccessful federal Progressive Conservative candidate in 1958, this despite that party's historic landslide victory that year. The fact that no civic building bears her name is likely not because she may or may not have been a lesbian but because of the racist views she held against Jews, Armenians, Ukranians, or any "non-British."
 

♂ Cornelius W. Wiebe (106) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

18 February 1893 — 12 July 1999.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Wiebe was the first Mennonite to serve in the Manitoba legislature (Morden and Rhineland, 1932–1936), serving only one term as a Liberal-Progressive.
 

♂ Edward J. (Joe) Williams (103) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

28 January 1918 — 18 August 2021.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Representing the Manitoba riding of Churchill (1958–1959) as a Progressive Conservative, Williams was first MLA of Danish ancestry. Serving only one term, he died more than 60 years later at the age of 103.
 

♂ Blair Wilson (59) years old as of today. This person was born on

18 May 1963 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 1

We tend to think of Elizabeth May as the first Green Party MP but, in fact, it is Wilson. Elected in 2006 as a Liberal in British Columbia's West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country riding, he got into trouble with his party for failing to mention a number of his legal and financial troubles during the nomination vetting process. He sat as an independent from October 2007 until August 2008, the eve of the general election, when he joined the Green Party. But Parliament having been dissolved, he did not get to sit as such. He came in last as a Green; John Weston, his 2006 Conservative rival, won.
 

♂ Gordon F. Wilson (74) years old as of today. This person was born on

2 January 1949 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 2

Wilson's second wife, Judi Tyabji, was born on a January 2, but 16 years after him. They divorced in 2022.
 

♂ Robert G. Wilson (88) years old as of today. This person was born on

2 November 1934 — .
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 2

A Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA from 1975 to 1981, Wilson lost his seat of Wolseley after he was convicted of conspiracy to import and traffic in marijuana.
 

♂ Joseph Wise (74) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

14 October 1834 — 21 February 1909.
Times presented: 4;   Times elected: 3

Wise, a Prince Edward Iland Liberal, defected to the opposition Conservatives in 1899 but the drama reached its climax in May 1900 when he was dragged out of the legislature by the Sergeant-at-Arms and locked in the Speaker’s room until the House adjourned. It's a story worth reading that also involves Henry Pineau, an MLA who only sat for just over a year and whose defection from the Conservatives to the Liberal saved the sitting government.
 

♂ John T. Wolfe (39) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

2 May 1955 — 2 February 1995.
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 1

In the years following the defeat of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan in 1991, 14 MLAs were convicted of fraud and breach of trust in a phony expense-claim scam. Wolfe is said to have been anguished at the prospect of being forced to testify against his old friends and colleagues. When told in 1995 that he also potentially faced arrest, he committed suicide by shooting himself. Charges had never been pressed against him. He was 39 years old.
 

♂ Edmund B. Wood (62) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

13 February 1820 — 7 October 1882.
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Like his leader, Sandfield Macdonald, Wood ran as a Conservative provincially but as a Liberal federally.
 

♂ John W. Woolf (80) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

27 November 1869 — 22 February 1950.
Times presented: 3;   Times elected: 3

Woolf was absent from the Alberta legislature beginning in late 1911 and resigned in April 1912 to return permanently to the United States. His son believed that his father was driven out by a Protestant minister in Cardston who was investigating and bringing to the attention of the authorities violations of Canada's anti-polygamy laws. His brother Martin won his seat in a by-election on May 27, 1912.
 

♂ Walter P. Wright (83) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

19 March 1909 — 1 September 1992.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Imagine giving up the seat you just won four months earlier for a minister who lost his seat during the general election, and then that guy loses the resulting by-election! That sums up Wright's political life...
 

♂ Borys Wrzesnewskyj (62) years old as of today. This person was born on

10 November 1960 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 4

A third-generation Ukranian-Canadian, Wrzesnewskyj was the Liberal MP for Etobicoke Centre from 2004 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. Apparently the proper way of pronouncing his family name is fshiss-NEF-skee. Okay...
 

♀ Kathleen O. Wynne (69) years old as of today. This person was born on

21 May 1953 — .
Times presented: 5;   Times elected: 5

Wynne was Ontario's first female premier and the first openly gay premier in Canada.
 

♂ Tany Yao (±52) years old as of today. This person's estimated date of birth is

c. 1971 — .
Times presented: 2;   Times elected: 2

Yao was one of the Alberta United Conservative MLAs who travelled abroad (to Mexico) at the end of 2020 while Albertans were required to avoid non-essential travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

♂ Lawrence R. Yew (56) years old at the time of death. Person's dates of birth and death?

17 January 1942 — 18 April 1998.
Times presented: 1;   Times elected: 1

Yew was Saskatchewan's first indigenous MLA. He represented Cumberland from 1982 to 1986 and did not offer for a second term.
 

♂ Paul Zed (66) years old as of today. This person was born on

31 December 1956 — .
Times presented: 6;   Times elected: 3

Since its creation in 1917, the New Brunswick federal riding of Fundy—Royal has been solidly Conservative — except in 1993, when the Liberal Zed won it, and in 2015 when another Liberal, Alaina Lockhart, won it. Both times, the Conservatives were the defeated incumbent government that had become deeply unpopular.
 

♂ Above Znoneofthe (53) years old as of today. This person was born on

28 June 1969 — .
Times presented: 11;   Times elected: 0

The man formerly known as Sheldon Bergson changed his name to "Above Znoneofthe" with a silent "Z" so that his name would be placed last on alphabetical ballots (hence reflecting the idea of voting for None of the Above) — as long, of course, that he doesn't find himself running against someone named Zuk or Zwicker.