Background
Lynch-Staunton was born in Southampton, Canada West (now Ontario) and was educated at Saint Mary"s College in Montreal as well as Upper Canada College in Toronto.
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George Lynch-Staunton
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He became a lawyer based in Hamilton, Ontario and served as chairman of the Transcontinental Railway Investigation Commission from 1911 to 1913. He also was legal counsel to the government of Ontario in a number of cases. He was called to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden in January 1917 and sat as a Conservative.
During the 1920s he debated Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario chairman Sir Adam Beck across Ontario on the subject of the Commission"s acquisition and operation of intercity "radial" streetcar service.
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Born
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Political Party
Conservative