George Carlyle Marler

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George Carlyle Marler PC (born September 14, 1901 in Montreal , Québec , † April 10, 1981 ibid) was a politician of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was Minister of Transport in the 17th cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent .

Life

Notary and opposition leader in Québec

Marler entered after attending the Selwyn House School in Montreal and the Collège Bishop's in Lennoxville in 1917 as a midshipman in the Royal Naval Academy of the Royal Canadian Navy and served there until 1919. Then completed a law degree at McGill University and took on that Graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) on July 14, 1923 to work as a notary . As such, he was involved in the Chamber of Notaries from 1930 to 1939 and was also President of the Montreal Notaries Association in 1934. He was also Vice President of the Valuation Review Office of Montreal from 1938 to 1940.

During the Second World War , he did military service between 1940 and 1942 as an instructor for navigation in the Royal Canadian Navy.

On March 23, 1942, Marler was elected as a candidate of the Liberal Party for the first time as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Québec and initially represented the constituency of Westmount-Saint-Georges until June 30, 1954 . During his membership in the Legislative Assembly between April 4, 1948 and November 18, 1953, as chairman of the Liberal Party fraction, he was leader of the opposition and thus a parliamentary opponent of the then Prime Minister of Quebec , Maurice Duplessis of the Union Nationale . At the same time he acted from July 22, 1949 as the successor of Adélard Godbout until his replacement by Georges-Émile Lapalme on May 2, 1950 as acting chairman of the Parti libéral du Québec .

Federal Minister, Member of the House of Commons and return to provincial politics

After Marler was appointed Minister of Transport to the 17th Canadian Cabinet by Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent on July 1, 1954, he left provincial politics and was involved in federal politics for a few years. He held the ministerial office until June 20, 1957.

At the same time, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in the constituency of Saint-Antoine-Westmount on November 8, 1954 , but lost this mandate in the August 31, 1958 election . He was then from December 1958 to January 1960 Executive Vice President of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Marler then returned to provincial politics after he was appointed minister without portfolio to the government of Québec on August 8, 1960 by Prime Minister Jean Lesage . He held this ministerial office until the end of Lesage's term of office on June 16, 1966. At the same time, he was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Québec on November 8, 1960 and represented the interests of Inkerman in the then Upper House of Parliament until December 30, 1968 . During this time he was also from November 8, 1960 to October 1965 chairman of the Liberal Party and thus leader of the government in the Legislative Council.

Marler was a half-brother of Herbert Meredith Marler , who was also a member of the House of Commons from 1921 to 1925 and from September 1925 to January 1926 Minister without Portfolio in the 12th Canadian Cabinet of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King .

In addition to his professional and political activities, Marler was also a recognized philatelist , a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of London and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada , and authored several specialist books on the so-called Admiral Stamps .

Publications

  • The law of real property, Quebec , co-author William DeMontmollin Marler, Burroughs and Co. Ltd, 1932 * Canada; notes on the 1911-1925 issue , American Philatelic Society, 1949
  • Booklets of the admiral stamps of 1911 to 1925 , British North America Philatelic Society, 1970
  • The Edward VII issue of Canada: a detailed study , National Postal Museum, 1975
  • Canada, the admiral issue, 1911-1925 , Unitrade Press, 1980
  • The admiral issue of Canada , American Philatelic Society, 1982

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personal data
SURNAME Marler, George Carlyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian politician (Liberal Party)
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1981
Place of death Montreal , Quebec