Richard Stuart Lake

Richard Stuart Lake

Sir Richard Stuart Lake , KCMG (born July 10, 1860 in Preston , Lancashire , England , † April 23, 1950 in Victoria , British Columbia ) was a Canadian politician . From 1905 to 1911 he was a Conservative MP in the House of Commons , from 1915 to 1921 Vice Governor of the Saskatchewan Province .

biography

Lake, the son of an officer, was raised in Westmorland County in the village of Milnthorpe . From 1878 he was a civil servant in the service of the British Navy and was stationed in Cyprus in this capacity . In 1883 he and his brother emigrated to what was then the Northwest Territories , and their parents followed suit a year later. Lake served there as vice president of the Wheat Farmers Association and as a justice of the peace. Apart from a five-month hiatus, he represented the Grenfell constituency in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1898 to 1903 .

In the 1904 general election, Lake ran successfully for the Conservatives in the Qu'Appelle constituency. After he was able to defend his seat in 1908 with 50.3% of the vote, he was just as closely defeated by the liberal candidate in the 1911 general election. He then worked for the Public Service Commission , the Saskatchewan Provincial Personnel Commission . Governor General Prince Arthur swore in Lake on October 18, 1915 as Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. He held this representative office until February 17, 1921. He was knighted in 1918 for his services as chairman of the Saskatchewan Red Cross Section during World War I.

Lake turned down a second term as lieutenant governor and moved to Victoria , where he continued to campaign for the Red Cross. Returning from a voyage to Great Britain , he was on board the Athenia on September 3, 1939 , when the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine. Lake survived the incident.

Web links

• Biography in the Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
• Richard Stuart Lake - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)