Background
He was born in Halanzy, the son of François Victor-Joseph Begrand and Marie Jungers, and came to Saint Louis, Saskatchewan with his family when he was just six months old.
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Henry Begrand
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He represented Kinistino from 1952 to 1959 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Company-operative Commonwealth Federation (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) member. The family received Canadian citizenship in 1900 and acquired a homestead in 1908. Begrand served in the Canadian Army during World War I and received training as a mechanic.
After returning home, he worked as a mechanic at a garage in Watrous before opening his own garage in Hoey.
Begrand was a dealer for British American Oil and sold agricultural equipment for International Harvester. He served as reeve for the rural municipality of Saint Louis from 1937 to 1952 and was also chair of the separate school board.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Rosthern seat in the provincial assembly in 1944. Begrand died in office of a heart attack in the Wakaw hospital at the age of 63.
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Canada