Ernest McGirr
| Ernest N. McGirr | |
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Ernest N. McGirr, QC
(date unknown, but ca. 1949) |
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| Born |
March 7, 1887 Emerson, Manitoba |
| Died | May 23, 1982 (aged 95) Dauphin, Manitoba |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Ernest Newburn McGirr, QC (March 7, 1887 – May 23, 1982) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Progressive Conservative from 1949 to 1953.
Born in Emerson, Manitoba, McGirr was educated in Morden and Winnipeg. He joined a law firm in Dauphin in 1914 and was made a partner in 1916. McGirr married Elizabeth Stewart, of Griswold, near Oak Lake, in 1916. They had two daughters, Nora Elizabeth McGirr Roots Clawson (1917-1989), an editor who was married and later divorced from Peter Charles Roots, the father of her three children (Stephanie Roots Karsten [1947–present], Judith Roots Carver [1950–present], and David Henry Roots [1951–present] and then to Robert Marion Clawson; and Kathleen (who married first the Canadian historian Roger Graham and later the distinguished military man Leonard Birchall). McGirr was named a King's Counsel in 1933.
McGirr first ran for the Manitoba legislature as a Conservative in the 1932 provincial election, but lost to Liberal-Progressive candidate Robert Hawkins by 265 votes in the Dauphin constituency. He lost to Hawkins again, by a greater margin, in the 1936 election.
He was elected to the legislature on his third attempt, in the provincial election of 1949. The Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives had previously formed a coalition government in Manitoba, and with support from the Liberal-Progressives, McGirr easily defeated an opponent from Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to take the Dauphin constituency.
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