Louis Côté

Louis Côté
Louis Côté
Member of the Senate of Canada
	In office; 1933–1943
Constituency	Ottawa East
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
	In office; 1929–1934
Constituency	Ottawa East
Personal details
Born	September 13, 1890; Ottawa, Canada
Died	February 2, 1943 (aged 52); Ottawa, Canada
Political party	Conservative; Conservative;
Spouse	Stella Cimon (m. 1922)
Education	University of Ottawa
Occupation	Lawyer, politician

Louis Côté (September 13, 1890 – February 2, 1943) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Ottawa East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative from 1929 to 1934 and was also a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Ottawa East division from 1933 to 1943.

Biography

He was born in Ottawa in 1890 and studied at the University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall. Côté married Stella, the daughter of judge Ernest Cimon and granddaughter of Hector-Louis Langevin, in 1922. He was a member of the Scott-Merchant-Côté Commission which recommended the creation of a bilingual school system for Franco-Ontarians.

Côté died of a heart attack at Ottawa's Union train station in 1943 while still serving as a senator.

Histoire d'Ottawa et de sa population canadienne-française, vol 4, 1926–1950, G. Lamoureux (1989)

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