{{Short description|Canadian politician (1863–1904)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | name = Henry Pineau | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1863|1|22}} | birth_place = Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island | death_date = {{death date and age|1904|2|18|1863|1|22}} | death_place = Miminegash, Prince Edward Island | office = Assemblyman for 1st Prince | term_start = 1899 | term_end = 1900 | predecessor = Meddie Gallant | successor = Benjamin Gallant | party = Conservative → Liberal | occupation = }}
'''Henry Pineau''' (January 22, 1863 – February 18, 1904) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of 1st Prince in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1899 to 1900.<ref name=peildo>[http://vre2.upei.ca/leg/fedora/repository/leg:27696 Henry J. Pineau], Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online.</ref> A member of the Conservative Party, he was most noted for crossing the floor to vote with the governing Liberals on a crucial motion of non-confidence in early 1900.<ref name=peildo/>
A farmer and fisherman in Miminegash, Prince Edward Island, Pineau was elected to the legislature in a by-election in 1899, after the election of Meddie Gallant in an 1898 by-election was overturned by the courts.<ref name=peildo/> However, he was rarely actually present in the legislature<ref name=peildo/> until the confidence crisis of early 1900, when the government of Donald Farquharson was threatened by MLA Joseph Wise's attempt to withdraw his earlier resignation;<ref name=peildo/> Wise attempted to vote with the Conservatives, which would have brought down the government, but his vote was disqualified by speaker James Cummiskey.<ref name=peildo/> Pineau then crossed the floor to the Liberals, ensuring the government's survival on the vote.<ref name=peildo/>
Pineau did not run for reelection in the 1900 general election.<ref name=peildo/> He died on February 18, 1904, in Miminegash.<ref name=peildo/>
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