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Edmund James Flynn

Life dates: 1847–1927

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Biography

Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec named individually in the 1879 group affiliation record.

Affiliation changes on record

Every event this person is recorded as taking part in, oldest first. Each links to the full record with its sources.

Chauveau, Flynn, Fortin, Pâquet, Racicot (1879)
UnverifiedLegacy leadEvidence: UnverifiedNobody has stood behind this record with a citation. It was inherited, or entered from a lead, and it has not been checked against a source.What you may rely onTreat as a lead, not as a finding. Usable to know where to look; not usable as the basis of a published statement. Expect year-precision dates and unconfirmed party labels.Editorial status: Legacy leadThe label is a warning, not a formality. Legacy leads are the part of the record most likely to carry a wrong year, a collapsed episode, or a party label that did not exist under that name at the time.This record does NOT pass the publication gate and is not publishable as verified fact.
1879year only
Quebec Liberal PartyToConservative Party of QuebecTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.Read from the two affiliation labels this record carries, by the same rule the database applies. It states the direction of the move, not the editorial ruling on how the leg counts.

Where they sat

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Claims and the sources cited for them

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Edmund James Flynn (1847–1927) sat for Gaspé in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and, on 29 October 1879, joined the Conservative Party with four colleagues.
Supported
Field:
legislative_membership
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Not signed by a named contributor
- Edmund James Flynn — Notice biographique
  Assemblée nationale du Québec · record Notice biographique; Gaspé; affiliations 1878-1904 · FR
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-ANQ-FLYNN-EDMUND-JAMES · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

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Affiliation changes on record

Every event this person is recorded as taking part in, oldest first. Each links to the full record with its sources.

Chauveau, Flynn, Fortin, Pâquet, Racicot (1879)

UnverifiedLegacy lead

1879year only

Quebec Liberal PartyToConservative Party of QuebecTo another partyWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.Read from the two affiliation labels this record carries, by the same rule the database applies. It states the direction of the move, not the editorial ruling on how the leg counts.

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Edmund James Flynn (1847–1927) sat for Gaspé in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and, on 29 October 1879, joined the Conservative Party with four colleagues.

Supported

Field:: legislative_membership
Confidence:: High
Signed by:: Not signed by a named contributor

Edmund James Flynn — Notice biographique
Assemblée nationale du Québec · record Notice biographique; Gaspé; affiliations 1878-1904 · FR
Archived copy — September 1, 2026
CTF-S-ANQ-FLYNN-EDMUND-JAMES · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026