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Place of Birth: Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada
About Anton Weselak
- Anton Bernard Weselak (11 February 1918 – 17 January 1989) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
- Weselak was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
- He was born in Beausejour, Manitoba and became a lawyer after studies at the Manitoba Law School.Weselak began a legal practice in Beausejour after his Call to the Bar in 1948.
- He was first elected to Parliament at the Springfield riding in the 1953 general election.
- After serving only one term, the 22nd Canadian Parliament, he was defeated by Jake Schulz of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1957 election.
- Weselak made a further attempt to win back the seat in the 1958 election but lost to Val Yacula who unseated Schulz.
- When Yacula died shortly after that victory, Weselak was again unsuccessful in a December 1958 by-election campaign. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, Weselak was part of Lester B.
- Pearson's delegation to the United Nations.
- Pearson was then External Affairs minister under the Louis St.
- Laurent government, and his efforts led to the formation of United Nations peacekeeping force which defused a full-scale Middle Eastern war.In the years before his retirement in 1985, Weselak was a Toronto-based immigration appeal court judge.
- He died on 17 January 1989 and his funeral was in Trenton, Ontario.
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