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Born in Milton, Ontario, Grant was educated in Granton and received a degree in pharmacy from Upper Canada College.
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Gilbert Grant
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He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1945 to 1949 as a Liberal-Progressive. He moved to Manitoba and operated drug stores in Brandon and then, after 1925, in Souris. Grant served as chairman of the Souris and Glenwood Hospital Board.
He was a director and later vice-president for the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company.
Grant was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1945 provincial election, defeating a candidate of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation by over 1,000 votes in the constituency of Glenwood. He served as a government backbencher for the next four years, supporting the ministries of Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell.
He did not run for re-election in 1949. He died in Souris in 1972 and was buried in Brandon.
