Camille Piché
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Camille Piché was a Canadian
Canada
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 lawyer and politician.

Born in St-Gabriel-de-Brandon
Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon, Quebec
Saint-Gabriel-de-Brandon is a parish municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the D'Autray Regional County Municipality.-History:...

, Canada East
Canada East
Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

, the son of P. C. Piche, a notary and Sophie Desparois dite Champagne, Piché was educated at the Jacques Cartier Normal School and at Laval University where he received a Bachelor of Laws degree. A member of the Quebec Bar, he practiced as a lawyer in Montreal with his firm Piche & Mercier. He was made a King's Counsel by the Quebec Government in 1904. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
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 for the electoral district of St. Mary
St. Mary (electoral district)
St. Mary was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1892 to 1953.This riding was created in 1892 from parts of Montreal East riding....

 in the 1904 federal election
Canadian federal election, 1904
The Canadian federal election of 1904 was held on November 3 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Canada...

. A Liberal
Liberal Party of Canada
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, he resigned in 1906 when he was appointed a Police Magistrate in Montreal.
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