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The Hon. Frederick Debartzch Monk | |
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Member of the Canadian Parliament for Jacques Cartier | |
In office 1896–1914 | |
Preceded by | Napoléon Charbonneau |
Succeeded by | Joseph Adélard Descarries |
Personal details | |
Born | Montreal, Canada East | April 6, 1856
Died | May 15, 1914 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | (aged 58)
Political party | Conservative |
Relations | Pierre-Dominique Debartzch, grandfather |
Children | Frederick Arthur Monk |
Cabinet | Minister of Public Works (1911–1912) |
Frederick Debartzch Monk, PC QC (April 6, 1856 – May 15, 1914) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Monk was the son of The Hon. Mr Justice Samuel Cornwallis Monk (1814–1888) and Rosalie Caroline Debartzch (1819–1889), daughter of The Hon. Pierre-Dominique Debartzch. His grandmother, Anne (Gugy) Monk was a daughter of Col. The Hon. Louis Gugy. He received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1877 from McGill University and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1878. From 1888 to 1914, he taught in the faculty of law at the Université Laval. In 1893, he was made a Queen's Counsel.
Monk was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1896 as a Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Jacques Cartier. He was re-elected in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1911. He resigned from Cabinet on October 28, 1912 after disagreeing with Sir Robert Borden over the refusal of a referendum on Canadian purchase of three dreadnought class ships for Laurier's "Tin Pot Navy."[1] From 1911 to 1912, he was the Minister of Public Works. Monk continued as a backbench MP, though his relations with the Conservative Party were increasingly strained, until March 2, 1914 when he resigned from the House of Commons due to ill health. He died two months later and was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.[2]
His son, Frederick Arthur Monk, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1935 to 1936.
Archives
There is a Frederick Debartzch Monk fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[3]
References
- ^ Morton, Desmond (2006). A Short History of Canada, 6th ed. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart. p. 173. ISBN 0-7710-6480-2.
- ^ Répertoire des personnages inhumés au cimetière ayant marqué l'histoire de notre société (in French). Montreal: Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
- ^ "Finding aid to Frederick Debartzch Monk fonds, Library and Archives Canada" (PDF).
External links
- 1856 births
- 1914 deaths
- Canadian people of Polish descent
- Canadian legal scholars
- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
- McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
- Members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- Politicians from Montreal
- Université Laval faculty
- Canadian Queen's Counsel
- Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery
- Conservative (1867-1942), Quebec MP stubs