Louis Côté

Louis Côté
Louis Côté
Member of the Senate of Canada
	In office; 1933–1943
Constituency	Ottawa East
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
	In office; 1929–1934
Constituency	Ottawa East
Personal details
Born	September 13, 1890; Ottawa, Canada
Died	February 2, 1943 (aged 52); Ottawa, Canada
Political party	Conservative; Conservative;
Spouse	Stella Cimon (m. 1922)
Education	University of Ottawa
Occupation	Lawyer, politician

Louis Côté (September 13, 1890 – February 2, 1943) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative from 1929 to 1934 and was also a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Ottawa East division from 1933 to 1943.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Ottawa in 1890 and studied at the University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall. Côté married Stella, the daughter of judge Ernest Cimon and granddaughter of Hector-Louis Langevin, in 1922. He was a member of the Scott-Merchant-Côté Commission which recommended the creation of a bilingual school system for Franco-Ontarians.

Côté died of a heart attack at Ottawa's Union train station in 1943 while still serving as a senator.

Histoire d'Ottawa et de sa population canadienne-française, vol 4, 1926–1950, G. Lamoureux (1989)

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