Edward Lavin Girroir

Who was Edward Lavin Girroir?

Edward Lavin Girroir was a Nova Scotia politician.

Born August 26 or 27, 1871 in Tracadie, Nova Scotia, he was the son of William Girroir and Anne Girroir. He had a twin brother, Hubert, who died one month after their birth, on September 25, 1871.

Girroir was educated at Saint Francis Xavier College and Dalhousie University. He was a Halifax lawyer, and also lectured on international law at Saint Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. In 1902, he married Lauretta Maude Corbin; she died in 1909. Senator Girroir and Mrs. Girroir had at least one son, Edward Lavin, Jr., 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.