Albert Edward Kemp
Sir Albert Edward Kemp KCMG PC was a Canadian businessman and politician. Kemp was a Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces during World War I. A Conservative and Unionist, Kemp was elected five times to the Canadian House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for electoral district of Toronto East. He was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1921.
Edward Kemp was born in SaintGeorgesdeClarenceville, Quebec in what was then Canada East. Kemps father was a farmer and country merchant who was an immigrant from Yorkshire, England his mother was Canadianborn. He was raised near the village of Clarenceville, where he attended Clarenceville Academy, and later studied at the academy in Lacolle, excelling in mathematics, but he did not finish. Leaving home at 16, Kemp headed to Montreal and eventually gaining employment as a bookkeeper at a hardware store.
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