Gustave Évanturel was an Ontario

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 notary and political figure. He represented Prescott

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1911 to 1923 as a Liberal and Independent Liberal and in the Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Liberal

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 member in 1925.

He was born in Ottawa

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 in 1879, the son of François-Eugène-Alfred Évanturel and Louisa Lee, and educated at the Collège Bourget

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 in Rigaud, Quebec

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 and the Université Laval

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. In 1910, he married Marie Emilia Chevrier. He was a notary public

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 based in Alfred and president of a mutual life assurance company, L'Alliance Nationale. He also was employed in the Privy Council Department. Évanturel was a strong supporter of bilingual

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schools in the province. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1925, but was unsuccessful in attempts at reelection in 1926 and 1929. He died in Alfred at the age of 54.