Aristide Blais

Aristide Blais (1875 to 1964) was a Canadian physician and politician. He was born at Berthier, Quebec, and took a Bachelor of Science and a medical degree at Laval University, graduating in medicine in 1899, before doing two years of postgraduate medical study in Paris. Early in his career he practised in partnership with the French-Canadian physician and senator Philippe Roy. During the First World War he served as a captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, later promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and was put in charge of the No. 6 Casualty Clearing Hospital at Saint-Cloud, France; he also served with the 38th Battalion and the 11th Field Ambulance Corps. In 1940 Prime Minister Mackenzie King summoned him to the Senate of Canada, where as a Liberal he represented the senatorial division of St. Albert, Alberta. He sat in the Senate until his death in Vancouver at the age of 89.