Eugène Fiset

Major-General Sir Marie-Joseph-Eugène Fiset, KCMG, DSO, ED (March 15, 1874 – June 8, 1951) was a Canadian physician, military officer, Deputy Minister of Militia and Defence, Member of Parliament, the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, and the 3rd Canadian Surgeon General.

[3] With the end of his tour of duty in South Africa in 1900, Fiset interned at the Nose and Throat Hospital in London and L'Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris.

[2] After a year he returned to Rimouski before becoming an adjutant in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.

[4][5][6][7][8] He was knighted for his service in the war while the French government named him a Commandeur of the Legion of Honour.

[2] He retired in 1923 and began a political career sitting in the House of Commons of Canada as the Liberal MP for Rimouski from 1924 until 1939.