Albert Benjamin Rutter "Bert" Lawrence MC was a politician in Ontario, Canada.
17 Facts About Bert Lawrence
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Bert Lawrence was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1974 who represented the ridings of Russell and Carleton East.
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Bert Lawrence served as a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts and Bill Davis.
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Bert Lawrence was educated at Ashbury College and at Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.
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Bert Lawrence enlisted in the army with the rank of Lieutenant in the 8th Reconnaissance Regiment.
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Bert Lawrence landed in Normandy in the first week of July 1944.
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Bert Lawrence was decorated with the Military Cross by King George VI for engineering a bridge in an advance action at the Risle River near Brionne, France.
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Bert Lawrence was injured twice including during V2 rocket attack near Antwerp in October 1944.
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Bert Lawrence was promoted to captain at the end of the war.
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Bert Lawrence graduated in 1948 and went to work for an Ottawa firm called Honeywell, Baker, Gibson, and Wotherspoon.
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Bert Lawrence married Lois Davidson in October 1949 and they raised four children.
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Bert Lawrence narrowly defeated Liberal candidate Fred Barrett by only 413 votes.
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Bert Lawrence defeated Liberal Eugene Bellemare by a comfortable margin of 4,221 votes.
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Bert Lawrence felt that the current system was unfair to consumers as judgments were applied unevenly.
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Bert Lawrence ran in the 1971 leadership convention to succeed Robarts, and came in fifth place.
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Bert Lawrence defended the trip because he met with Cuban government officials and said that he had opened a number of doors.
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Bert Lawrence was roundly criticized in the media and his influence was diminished as a result.