Sir Richard Stuart Lake, (July 10, 1860 – April 23, 1950) was an English-born Canadian territorial provincial and federal level politician from

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, Canada.

Territorial politics

Born in

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, Lake was elected to the

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for the Grenfell district in the

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. In 1900 he vacated his seat to run in

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in the

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. After being defeated in his first attempt at federal politics he ran for his old seat and was re-elected as the MLA in a by-election on March 22, 1901. Lake was acclaimed to his second term in office in the

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. He held that post until the

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when he vacated his seat to make a second run at Federal politics.

Federal politics

Lake was elected as a Member of the

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in his second run at Federal politics in the

in the new Qu'Appelle federal electoral district. He was re-elected to a second term in the

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winning a hotly contested election by just a 100 votes. In the

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he was defeated by

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and never returned to federal politics.

Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan

After being defeated in the Federal election, Lake went to work for the Saskatchewan Public Service Commission, he held that job until he was appointed as the third

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on October 18, 1915. He served for six years, until February 17, 1921, when he was offered the possibility of extending his royal commission; however, he refused.

Late life

He moved to

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after his career in politics and lived the rest of his life there. He and his wife, Dorothy, were aboard the SS ''Athenia'' when it was torpedoed on September 3, 1939 and survived. He died on April 23, 1950.

Electoral record

External links

Archives of the Northwest Territories Legislature 1876 - 1905
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