Guy Favreau
The Honourable Guy Favreau, PC ,
QC ,
BA ,
LL.B (
May 20,
1917 –
July 11,
1967) was a
Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
Born in
Montreal, Quebec, the son of Léopold Favreau and Béatrice Gagnon, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a LL.B. from the
Université de Montréal. He was called to the
Bar of Quebec in
1940. He worked as a lawyer in Montreal from
1942 to
1952. In 1952, he became a member of the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission in
Ottawa. In
1955, he became Assistant
Deputy Minister of Justice. He helped to create the Faculty of Civil Law at the
University of Ottawa and taught there as well. In
1960, he returned to Montreal to work as a private lawyer.
He was elected as a
Liberal in the riding of
Papineau in the
1963 election, and was re-elected in
1965. He was
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (1963-1964),
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1964-1965),
President of the Privy Council (1965-1967), and Registrar General of Canada (1966-1967). As well, he was
Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (1964) and Liberal Party House Leader (1964).
He was appointed a judge of the
Quebec Superior Court on April 17, 1967, and died on July 11, 1967.
Complexe Guy Favreau, the federal government's main building in Montreal built in 1983, is named in his honour.
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Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament
