William Power was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in the parish of Sillery

Sillery, Quebec

Sillery is a former city in central Quebec, Canada. Located just west of old Quebec City, Sillery was among the many outlying municipalities amalgamated into an expanded Quebec City on January 1, 2002. Its former territory now forms part of the new Borough of Sainte-Foy—Sillery—Cap-Rouge...

, Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

, 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 William Power and Bridgit Fitzgerald

Bridgit Fitzgerald

Bridgit Fitzgerald is a Canadian of Irish descent who was a prominent patron of the English-speaking culture within the Irish community of Quebec City, in the 19th century. Fitzgerald married William Power on September 27, 1843 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada.Mother of the Canadian politician...

, both Irish, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec. A lumber merchant, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

 for Quebec West

Quebec West

Quebec West was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1935, and from 1949 to 1968.It was created by the British North America Act of 1867...

 in a 1902 by-election, after the death of the sitting MP, Richard Reid Dobell

Richard Reid Dobell

Richard Reid Dobell, PC was a Canadian businessman and politician.Born in Liverpool, England, he came to Quebec in 1857 and started a lumber business. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Quebec West in the 1896 federal election and was re-elected in 1900...

. A Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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, he was re-elected in 1904

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...

 but was defeated in 1908

Canadian federal election, 1908

The Canadian federal election of 1908 was held on October 26 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in government with a majority government...

. He was elected again in 1911

Canadian federal election, 1911

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 but did not run in 1917

Canadian federal election, 1917

The 1917 Canadian federal election was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription...

.

His son, Charles Gavan Power

Charles Gavan Power

Charles Gavan "Chubby" Power, MC, PC was a Canadian politician and athlete. Power's father, William Power, was also a Member of Parliament from Quebec, retiring in 1917...

, was an MP and senator. His grandson, Francis Gavan Power was an MP. His great-grandson Lawrence Cannon

Lawrence Cannon

Lawrence Cannon, PC is a Canadian politician from Quebec and Prime Minister Stephen Harper's former Quebec lieutenant. On October 30, 2008 he was sworn in as Minister of Foreign Affairs...

 is a Conservative MP and cabinet minister. His son William Gerard Power

William Gerard Power

William Gerard Power was a Canadian politician.Born in the parish of Sillery, Quebec City, the son of William Power and Susan Winifred Rockett, Power was educated at the Commercial Academy of Quebec and the College Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal . A lumber merchant, he joined W & J Sharples in 1897,...

 was a member of the Legislative Council of Quebec

Legislative Council of Quebec

From 1867 until 1968, the Legislative Council of Quebec was the unelected upper house of the bicameral legislature in the Canadian province of Quebec...

. Another son James Power

James Power (ice hockey)

James "Rocket" Power was an amateur, later a professional ice hockey athlete playing the defence position from 1900 to 1913. Born in Sillery, Quebec, Canada, he had two brothers Joe Power and Charles "Chubby" Power who also played ice hockey. The Rockett was his middle name, from his mother's...

 was a professional hockey player and soldier. James Power was also known by his middle name (his mother's maiden name) "Rocket".

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