Background
Born August 26 or 27, 1871 in Tracadie, Nova Scotia, he was the son of William Girroir and Anne (Lavin) Girroir.
politician Member of the Senate of Canada
Born August 26 or 27, 1871 in Tracadie, Nova Scotia, he was the son of William Girroir and Anne (Lavin) Girroir.
Girroir was educated at Saint Francis Xavier College and Dalhousie University.
He had a twin brother, Hubert, who died one month after their birth, on September 25, 1871. He was a Halifax lawyer, and also lectured on international law at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Senator Girroir and Mistress
Girroir (née Corbin) had at least one son, Edward Lavin, Junior., born February 10, 1907.
In 1900, 1905 and 1908, Girroir ran unsuccessfully for the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Antigonish. In 1911, he was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Liberal-Conservative representing the provincial riding of Antigonish.
Girroir was appointed to the Canadian Senate on November 20, 1912, as a Conservative representing the senatorial division of Antigonish. He was the second Acadian senator from Nova Scotia.
He died in office on May 8, 1932.