Amédée Forget

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Amédée Forget

Amédée-Emmanuel Forget (born November 12, 1847 in Marieville , Lower Canada (today: Québec ), † June 8, 1923 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian politician and lawyer . He was lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories from 1898 to 1911 , after which he held this office until 1910 in the province of Saskatchewan . He was a senator from 1911 until his death .

biography

The son of Jeremie and Marie (née Guenette) Forget studied law with Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau after finishing school (at that time there was no law faculty) and was admitted to the bar in 1871. Together with Chapleau, he took over the defense of Ambroise-Dydime Lépine in 1874 . In 1875 he joined the Canadian federal administration. After he had organized the census in Manitoba , he was from 1877 assistant to David Laird , the lieutenant governor of the Northwest Territories, from 1881 to Edgar Dewdney . In vain he turned against the execution of Louis Riel after the Northwest Rebellion of 1885 .

From 1888 Forget worked as a deputy Indian commissioner, from 1893 he headed the Indian agency in Regina . Governor General Lord Minto swore him in on October 4, 1898 as Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories, on the instructions of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier . A change in the law in the previous year meant that this office, as in the provinces, was only of a ceremonial nature.

On September 1, 1905, parts of the Northwest Territories became the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. Forget was then appointed lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan and held this office until October 13, 1910. Laurier then appointed him senator in May 1911 . He died in office in 1923 and was buried in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery in Montreal. The city of Forget (Saskatchewan) is named after him.

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SURNAME Forget, Amédée
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forget, Amédée-Emmanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Marieville , Lower Canada (today: Québec )
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1923
Place of death Ottawa