Edward Gigot

Edward Francis Gigot (May 30, 1847[1] – December 3, 1928[2]) was a German-born merchant and political figure in Manitoba.

He represented St. Francois Xavier from 1883 to 1886 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal.

He was born in Mayence, the son of Nicholas Gigot and Josephine von Kirckesh,[1] and was educated at Jacoby's College.

He worked three years at White Horse Plains and then was transferred to Portage la Prairie.

He left the Hudson's Bay Company in 1882 and then joined again in 1885, working at Fort Macleod, then part of the Northwest Territories, and then at Nelson, British Columbia.