Frederick Debartzch Monk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Frederick Debartzch Monk
- Frederick Debartzch Monk, (April 6, 1856 – May 15, 1914) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of The Hon.
- Mr Justice Samuel Cornwallis Monk (1814–1888) and Rosalie Caroline Debartzch (1819–1889), daughter of The Hon.
- Pierre-Dominique Debartzch.
- His grandmother, Anne (Gugy) Monk was a daughter of Col.
- The Hon.
- Louis Gugy.
- He received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1877 from McGill University and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1878.
- From 1888 to 1914, he taught in the faculty of law at the Université Laval.
- In 1893, he was made a Queen's Counsel. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1896 as a Conservative Member of Parliament for the riding of Jacques Cartier.
- He was re-elected in 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1911.
- He resigned from Cabinet on October 28, 1912 after disagreeing with Sir Robert Borden over the refusal of a referendum on Canadian purchase of three dreadnought class ships for Laurier's "Tin Pot Navy." From 1911 to 1912, he was the Minister of Public Works.
- Monk continued as a backbench MP, though his relations with the Conservative Party were increasingly strained, until March 2, 1914 when he resigned from the House of Commons due to ill health.
- He died two months later. His son, Frederick Arthur Monk, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1935 to 1936.
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