Political party Liberal Role Lawyer Profession lawyer Spouse Elizabeth St-Martin | Religion Roman Catholic Party Liberal Party of Canada Name Yves Forest | |
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Yves Forest, QC (born 25 June 1921 at Sherbrooke, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by career.
Forest attended school at Saint-Charles Seminary in Sherbrooke, then earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at Université de Montréal.
He was first elected at the Stanstead riding in the 1963 general election then re-elected there in the 1965 election. In the 1968 election, he was elected to another Parliamentary term at Missisquoi riding. Forest left federal politics when he was defeated in the 1972 federal election at Brome—Missisquoi.
Since January 2004, Forest became a director of the Historical Society of Magog and was honoured for his work in November 2009.
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