Charles Lamarche

Charles Lamarche (July 17, 1850 – December 25, 1909) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Nipissing East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1905.

However, after only a few months in office he resigned to open a seat for Francis Cochrane, who had been appointed Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines in the government of James P. Whitney, to enter the legislature in a by-election.

[3] Following his resignation from the legislature, he was appointed as registrar of deeds for the Nipissing District.

[2] He was sued in 1908 by Henry Draney, a mining prospector whose registration of a mining claim in Cobalt had been rejected.

[4] Draney's lawsuit claimed that Lamarche had promised to make his resignation from the legislature conditional on the approval of Draney's claim.