| Yves Forest | |
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| Member of Parliament for Stanstead |
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| In office April 1963 – June 1968 |
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| Member of Parliament for Missisquoi |
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| In office June 1968 – September 1972 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 June 1921 Sherbrooke, Quebec |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth St-Martin m. 15 August 1947 |
| Profession | lawyer |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Yves Forest, QC (born 25 June 1921 at Sherbrooke, Quebec) was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a lawyer by career.
Forest attended school at Saint-Charles Seminary in Sherbrooke, then earned a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws at Université de Montréal.[1]
He was first elected at the Stanstead riding in the 1963 general election then re-elected there in the 1965 election. In the 1968 election, he was elected to another Parliamentary term at Missisquoi riding. Forest left federal politics when he was defeated in the 1972 federal election at Brome—Missisquoi.
Since January 2004, Forest became a director of the Historical Society of Magog and was honoured for his work in November 2009.[2]