Leslie Egerton Blackwell | |
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Ontario MPP | |
In office 1943–1951 | |
Preceded by | Harold James Kirby |
Succeeded by | William James Dunlop |
Constituency | Eglinton |
Personal details | |
Born | Lindsay,Ontario,Canada | November 9,1897
Died | October 20,1959 61) Toronto,Ontario | (aged
Political party | Progressive Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Jacqueline Sinclair |
Children | 2 |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Military service | |
Rank | Private |
Unit | 204th Battalion,CEF |
Battles/wars | Battle of Cambrai |
Leslie Egerton Blackwell (9 November 1897 –20 October 1959) was a Canadian politician,soldier,lawyer,and land developer.
He was born in Lindsay,Ontario in 1897, [1] [2] but moved to Toronto when he was young. He grew up and was educated in the Parkdale area of Toronto. [3] He joined the Canada Army as a private in 1916,during the First World War. His unit,the 204th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry,was commanded by future Ontario Attorney General,Lieutenant-Colonel William Price. [3] He was severely injured in the war,losing a leg during the Battle of Cambrai in 1918. [4] He came back to Canada and eventually graduated from the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall law school. [4]
During the 1937 Ontario general election Blackwell was a candidate in Toronto's Eglinton electoral district;where he came in second on election night. [4] He ran again in Eglinton,and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 1943 election that brought George Drew's Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to power with a minority government. Blackwell was immediately put into Drew's cabinet as Attorney General. [3]
After Drew's departure from provincial politics,Blackwell was a candidate to replace him in the 1949 Conservative leadership election,placing second to Leslie Frost. [3] He did not join Frost's cabinet and served his remaining time as a backbencher in the legislature,and did not run in the 1951 election. [3]
He went back to his private law practice and became involved in land development. He was working on the Thorncliffe Park housing development,in Toronto,when he was hospitalized in early October 1959. [4] He finally succumbed to complications due to pneumonia on 20 October 1959. [3]
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