Robert Smeaton White was a Canadian

Canada

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 journalist and political figure. He represented Cardwell from 1888 to 1895, Mount Royal

Mount Royal (electoral district)

Mount Royal is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1925. Its population in 2006 was 98,888....

 from 1925 to 1935 and Saint-Antoine—Westmount

Saint-Antoine—Westmount

St. Antoine—Westmount and Saint-Antoine—Westmount were federal electoral districts in Quebec, Canada, that were represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968....

 from 1935 to 1940 as a Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

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 member.

He was born in Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...

 in 1856, the son of Thomas White

Thomas White (Canadian politician)

Thomas White, was a Canadian journalist and politician.He was born in Montreal, Lower Canada in 1830, the son of Thomas White, a leather merchant who came to Canada from Ireland in 1826. White worked at a number of jobs before entering the printing trade with the Queen's Printer in Toronto around...

 and Esther Vine, and studied at McGill University

McGill University

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. In 1882, he married Ruth McDougall. He worked for a wholesale merchant at Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 and then the Bank of Montreal

Bank of Montreal

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, before joining the Montreal Gazette in 1884. White later became chief editor for the paper. In 1888, he married Annie Barclay after the death of his first wife. He was first elected to the House of Commons in an 1888 by-election held in Cardwell after the death of his father. In 1896, he was appointed customs collector at Montreal. White ran unsuccessfully as a member of the National Government Party in Saint-Antoine—Westmount in 1940. He died in Westmount

Westmount, Quebec

Westmount is a city on the Island of Montreal, an enclave of the city of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada; pop. 20,494; area 4.02 km²; population density of 5,092.56 inhabitants/km²....

at the age of 88.