Osie Villeneuve
| Osie Villeneuve | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1975–1983 |
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| Preceded by | New riding |
| Succeeded by | Noble Villeneuve |
| Constituency | Stormont—Dundas and Glengarry |
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In office 1963–1975 |
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| Preceded by | Fernand Guindon |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Constituency | Glengarry |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Glengarry—Prescott |
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In office 1957–1962 |
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| Preceded by | Raymond Bruneau |
| Succeeded by | Viateur Éthier |
| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1948–1957 |
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| Preceded by | Edmund MacGillivray |
| Succeeded by | Fernand Guindon |
| Constituency | Glengarry |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 28, 1906 Maxville, Ontario |
| Died | September 25, 1983 (aged 77) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Political party |
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Alma MacLeod |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Livestock broker |
Osias F. "Osie" Villeneuve (June 28, 1906 – September 25, 1983) was a longtime politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and the Canadian House of Commons, and was an elected representative almost continuously from the 1940s until his death.
Villeneuve was born on June 28th, 1906, in Maxville, Ontario, and educated in the area. In his early days he worked as a livestock dealer. He married Alma MacLeod in 1930, and together they raised three sons. He played and coached minor league hockey in the 1930s and 1940s, including coaching and managing the Maxville Millionaires for which in part he was inducted into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. Villeneuve also spearheaded many local projects, including the Jubilee Rink, the village's first covered rink, and forty years later the Maxville and District Sports Complex to replace the Jubilee. In recognition of this, the arena in the new complex was named in his honour. Villeneuve was also a founding member of the organizing committee for the first Glengarry Highland Games in 1948.
Villeneuve served on the local school board on council, and was reeve of Maxville in 1948.
In the 1945 provincial election, he ran for the Progressive Conservative Party, and lost to Liberal incumbent Edmund MacGillivray by 1,613 votes in Glengarry. After winning the reeveship of Maxville in 1948, he ran again in the 1948 provincial election, and defeated MacGillivray by 1,788 votes. Villeneuve served as a government backbench supporter under Thomas Laird Kennedy and Leslie Frost, and won re-election in the Progressive Conservative landslides of 1951 and 1955.
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