Vincent Segur

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Vincent Segur | honorific_suffix = | image = Vincent Segur, 1953.jpeg | image_size = | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | predecessor = Harry Johnston | successor = William James Johnson | term_start = 1943 | term_end = 1945 | predecessor2 = Arvid Lundell | successor2 = Arvid Lundell | term_start2 = 1952 | term_end2 = 1956 | constituency = Revelstoke | constituency2 = Revelstoke | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|5|2}} | birth_place = Danbury, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|2|25|1887|5|2}} | death_place = Burnaby, British Columbia | spouse = | party = CCF | relations = | occupation = fireman and train engineer | children = | alma_mater = }} '''Vincent Spies Segur''' (May 2, 1887 – February 25, 1965) was an American-born locomotive engineer and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Revelstoke in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1943 to 1945 and from 1952 to 1956 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.

He was born in Danbury, Iowa<ref name="webster"/> and came to Lacombe, Alberta with his family while still young. In 1908, he was working in lumber camps on Vancouver Island and, the following year, joined the Canadian Pacific Railway, where he worked as a fireman and train engineer stationed in Revelstoke.<ref name="webster"/> Segur ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1933. He was first elected to the assembly in a 1943 by-election held following the death of Harry Johnston but he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1945 and 1949.<ref name="elections">{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf |title=Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 |publisher=Elections BC |accessdate=2011-07-27}}</ref> He retired from the railway in 1952 and was again elected to the assembly later that year. Segur retired from politics in 1956 and moved to Vernon.<ref name="webster">{{cite book |title=Growth of the N.D.P. in B.C., 1900-1970: 81 political biographies |last=Webster |first=Daisy |year=1970}}</ref> He died in Burnaby of a heart attack at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=89cb50ef-ce03-4024-b8cd-c307d95256e5|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043735/http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/DisplayGenealogyImage?k=89cb50ef-ce03-4024-b8cd-c307d95256e5|archive-date=4 March 2016|title=Registration of Death|access-date=16 November 2013}}</ref>

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