[1] The son of Harry A. Cavers and Mabel Laura Lyons, he was educated in St. Catharines and at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall.

[2] Cavers served as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1945.

Cavers was defeated at Lincoln in the 1957 election by John Smith of the Progressive Conservative party.

Cavers made one further campaign for federal office in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to unseat Smith at Lincoln.

[1] Cavers became a Dufferin County judge after he left the House of Commons.