Gustave Roy was a Liberal party

Liberal Party of Canada

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. Born in Cap-Chat, Quebec

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, he was a physician and surgeon by career.

The son of Gustave Roy and Vitaline Côté, Roy was educated at Rimouski Seminary, then at Université Laval

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 where he received his medical degree. He set up practise in Mont-Laurier

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. Roy was also president and director for L'Écho de la Lièvre.

In 1937, a lumberman whose leg had been fractured was dissatisfied with Roy's treatment and attempted to shoot the doctor; his gun failed to discharge and the dissatisfied client was arrested.

He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1952. He was first elected at the Labelle

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 riding in the 1953 general election

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, unseating Progressive Conservative party

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 incumbent Henri Courtemanche

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. After serving his only term, the 22nd Canadian Parliament

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, Roy was defeated by Courtemanche in the 1957 election

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. He died in Mont-Laurier prior to 1998.