Joseph-Marcellin Wilson
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Joseph-Marcellin Wilson (November 26, 1859 – September 10, 1940) was a Canadian
Canada
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 merchant and senator.

Born in Île Bizard
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, Canada East
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, he was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1911. A Liberal
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, he represented the senatorial division of Saurel, Quebec. He resigned in 1939. He died in 1940 and is buried in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery.

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