Gordon Wallace Scott

Gordon Wallace Scott (1887 - 1940) is a Québécois politician, member of the Legislative council, which was provincial treasurer (Minister for Finance) in 1930 under the government of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

Private career

Born with Montreal on October 1st 1887, Gordon Wallace Scott is the son of the tradesman James Scott and Emma Maria Wallace. Studying in Montreal High School, he was trainee in the approved accountants P.S. Ross & Sons . He was director of several companies in Quebec: the Power Corporation off Canada Limited , the General Steel Wares , the Holy Lawrence Corporation Limited , the Canadian Corporation Limited , the Burge Carbon Paper Limited , the Montreal Lithography Company , the Anglo Telephon Company Limited , the Montreal Trust Company , the Canadian Industrial Alcohol Limited , the Hydro Electric Securities Corporation , etc

Scott also exerted the Protestant president's function of the Hospital of Verdun. Named member of the Protestant committee of the State education, he became about it later the president.

Political career

Gordon Wallace Scott entered in policy to the autumn 1930 when the Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau asked him to succeed Andrew Ross McMaster at the post of provincial treasurer. It accepted but, unfortunately for him, in function only October 16th with the November 27th 1930 remained. It presented to a by-election, held the November 4th 1930 in the county of Huntingdon, but was beaten by the preserving Martin Beattie Fisher. This one, irony of fate, became later provincial treasurer in the first cabinet Duplessis in 1936.

It seems that Taschereau as even held to have it under the hand. The November 13rd, it appointed it legislative adviser of the division of Wellington and Minister without portfolio. It kept for him the post of treasurer while waiting for a possible victory of Scott to the next general election. As a minister without portfolio, Scott helped it to write the speech of the budget for the year 1931 - 1932. This speech of the budget, Lu to the legislative Parliament the January 21st 1931 by the Prime Minister, was historical because, for the first time since the Confederation, it was given in the French language.

The July 30th 1931, Taschereau announced general elections for the August 24th according to. Scott was presented in the county of Montreal-Saint-Georges but, in spite of a crushing victory of the Liberal party, it was demolishes by the conservative Charles Ernest Gault with only 83 votes of difference.

Taschereau re-elected it legislative adviser the June 17th 1932, this time in Victoria division, but it had to be resigned all the same to leave its cabinet.

At the end of the Years 1930, Scott seemed to start to be interested in the federal policy. In 1939, at the beginning of the Second world war, he became financial adviser with the ministry for the Ammunition and Approvisionnements. He died tragically the December 14th 1940 when the steamer Western Prince , on which he had taken seat, was torpedoed by a German submarine.

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