Obituary: Former art teacher Eugène Bellemare became respected four-term Liberal backbencher

BORN APRIL 6, 1932
Eugène Bellemare used to sit at his drawing table long after midnight to pen caricatures from the House of Commons, where he sat as Carleton-Gloucester’s MP.
“After the news at 11:30, I just sit and I draw,” he said in a 1997 interview. “I go to bed extremely late, at 1:30 or so. I can’t sleep before that. So this is my fun, late at night.”
Bellemare, who was elected as Liberal MP in four elections in Carleton-Gloucester, died Ju