Jacob (Jake) Shulz (October 12, 1901 – August 14, 1983) was a Canadian farmer and politician as well as the father-in-law of

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Ed Schreyer. Shulz was born in Friedensthal, a Bessarabia German community in the

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, from 1918 part of Romania and today Mirnopolye, Ukraine. He came to Canada with his wife in 1930 to become a farmer in the Gilbert Plains area of

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. He joined the

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and became involved in municipal politics."Jacob Shulz", ''Canadian Press'', August 17, 1983 He was a candidate for the

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in the 1949 provincial election in the

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of Gilbert Plains, losing by 330 votes to Ray Mitchell. In 1950, Schulz became founding president of the Manitoba Farmers Union and served as chairman of the Interprovincial Farm Union Council in the mid-1950s."Saskatchewan Farmers Union", Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan
/ref> He was elected to Parliament in the 1957 general election representing the Springfield district for the

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. He served for the short

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, which lasted less than a year, before losing his seat in the 1958 federal election that elected a landslide

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for the

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. Shulz founded a construction company in 1960 and wrote a book, ''The Rise and Fall of Farm Organizations''. His son, Herbert, was also a farmer and co-operative farm activist. His daughter,

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, is married to Ed Schreyer, who, in the 1965 federal election, was elected a

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MP from Schulz' old riding of Springfield.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schulz, Jake 1901 births 1983 deaths Bessarabia-German people Canadian people of German descent Co-operative Commonwealth Federation MPs Farmers from Manitoba Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba Romanian emigrants to Canada 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada