Gerard Lecuyer

Educator, MLA (1981-1986), MLA (1986-1988).

Born at St. Boniface on 2 August 1936, one of 14 children of Albert Lecuyer (1905-1971) and Suzanne Delaloye (1910-2000), he grew up at Ste. Agathe. He worked with the CIDA in Sierra Leone and Algeria before entering provincial politics. Elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly at the 1981 general election and re-elected in 1986, he served as Minister of Environment, Workplace Safety and Health (1983-1988). He was defeated in the 1988 general election. He received a Prix Riel for community development (1992). In 1959, he married schoolteacher Irene Arnould (1932-2009) and they had five children.

Sources:

Obituary [Suzanne Lecuyer], Winnipeg Free Press, 11 July 2000.

Obituary [Irene Lecuyer], Winnipeg Free Press, 29 January 2009.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (living), Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

List of Riel Prize recipients, Wikipedia.

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

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