Peter Heenan, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (February 19, 1875 – May 12, 1948) was a Canadian

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 politician.

Born in Tullaree, County Monaghan

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, Ireland

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, he was a locomotive engineer before being elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 as the Labour candidate for the riding of Kenora

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 in the 1919 election

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. He was re-elected in 1923

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.

He was elected as the Liberal

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 candidate to the Canadian House of Commons

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 representing the riding of Kenora—Rainy River

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 in the 1925 federal election

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. He was re-elected in 1926

Canadian federal election, 1926

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 and 1930

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. From 1926 to 1930, he was the Minister of Labour

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He resigned his federal seat, after winning a provincial seat as the Liberal Party of Ontario candidate in the 1934 election

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 for the riding of Kenora. He was re-elected in 1937

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. From 1934 to 1941, he was the Minister of Lands and Forests in the provincial government of Mitchell Hepburn

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and also served as Minister of Labour.