Northwest Territories: Progressive Conservatives

Progressive Conservatives: Rheaume ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House in March 1962, but he was elected to represent the opposition Progressive Conservatives in the Northwest Territories one year later when Lester Pearson was the Liberal prime minister, according to CTV. He was defeated in the 1965 and 1974 federal elections, and according to the parliamentary website, worked as an administrator, insurance agent and social worker and PENTICTON, B.C. -- The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples says a high profile Metis leader who was elected to Parliament died Friday in the south Okanagan city of Penticton, B.C., Eugene Rheaume was 80. He served on nine Parliamentary committees, including fisheries, Indian affairs, human rights and citizenship, as well as mines, forests and waters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.