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About Joseph Hamelin
- Joseph Hamelin (February 22, 1873 – August 29, 1947) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1927.
- Hamelin's paternal grandfather, Salomon Hamelin, served in the Legislative Council of Manitoba from 1871 to 1876.
- His maternal grandfather was legislator Pascal Breland.Hamelin was born in St.
- Vital, Manitoba (now part of Winnipeg), the son of Firmin Hamelin and Clemence Breland, and was educated in St.
- Boniface and at the Juniorate of the Sacred Heart in Ottawa, Ontario.
- He then returned to Manitoba and worked as a merchant, becoming manager of the Joseph Hamelin Co.
- general store in Ste.
- Rose du Lac in 1912.
- He served as reeve of Ste.
- Rose from 1900 to 1916.Hamelin was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election.
- Running for the Conservative Party in Ste.
- Rose, he defeated Liberal candidate J.A.
- Campbell by sixty votes.
- After the election, he served as a backbench supporter of Rodmond Roblin's government. Hamelin's time on the government benches was brief.
- The Roblin government was forced to resign amid scandal in early 1915, and was resoundingly defeated in the 1915 provincial election.
- Hamelin was one of only five Conservatives to win re-election, defeating Liberal candidate Z.H.
- Rheaume by twenty-nine votes.
- Hamelin was the last member to speak against the bill granting women the vote in Manitoba in 1916.
- In the end, he voted in support of the bill, making its passage unanimous.
- He was again returned in the 1920 election, in which the Conservatives won eight seats out of fifty-five. In the 1922 election, Hamelin won re-election over United Farmers of Manitoba candidate Thomas McDonald by ninety votes.
- He identified himself as an independent candidate during this campaign, although most political observers considered him to be a Conservative in all but name.
- He appears to have rejoined the Conservative caucus during the parliament that followed.
- In the 1927 election, he lost the Ste.
- Rose constituency to Progressive candidate Maurice Dane MacCarthy by 224 votes. Hamelin attempted to return to the legislature in the 1936 election, but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Sauveur Marcoux by 830 votes in the La Verendrye constituency. In 1900 at Laurier, Manitoba, he married Parmélie Gamache.
- They had 10 children.
- Hamelin died in Niagara Falls, Ontario on August 29, 1947.
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