Errick Willis
Errick French Willis ( born March 21, 1896 in Boissevain, Manitoba, † January 9, 1967 in Winnipeg ) was a Canadian politician and curler. In 1932 he took part in the Winter Olympics. For three decades, he was politically active at the provincial and federal level. He was chairman of the Manitoba Conservative Party and for twelve years a member of the Government of Manitoba. From 1960 to 1965 he was vice- governor of that province.
Biography
Willis studied law at the Universities of Toronto, Alberta and Manitoba. From 1926 he worked as a lawyer in Winnipeg, from 1929 in his birthplace of Boissevain. In 1933 he gave his occupation as a lawyer and he dedicated himself to the pig.
Willis was an avid curling player. As the lead of the Canadian team, he participated in the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid Curling Tournament. His team won the Olympic gold medal. Since curling was still a demonstration sport that medal but has no official status.
Willis ' political career began in 1926 when he took without success for the Conservative Party at the general election. Four years later, at the general election in 1930, he succeeded the catchment with the victory in the constituency Souris into the Federal Parliament. After one term, he was voted in the general election in 1935; the re-election, he missed it by only three votes.
Permanent Willis Was ' political career at the provincial level. 1936 elected him the Manitoba Conservative Party as its chairman, the same year he was elected for the constituency Deloraine for deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. 1940 formed the Conservatives with the Liberal - Progressive under John Bracken, a coalition government. Willis was then ten years Minister of Public Works, 1942-1944 additional labor minister. 1950 decided his party the dissolution of the coalition, prompting Willis was opposition leader. In 1954, he was replaced as party chairman.
In the minority government of Dufferin Roblin Willis served from 1958 to 1960 as Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister. Governor General Georges Vanier sworn him on 15 January 1960 as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. This representative office he held until his death.