Jean Martineau, CC

Order of Canada

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, QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (ca. 1895 - 11 December 1985) was a Canadian

Canada

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 lawyer and President of the Canada Council for the Arts

Canada Council

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 from 1964 to 1969.

Biography

Jean Martineau was educated at the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

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. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1919.

From 1953 to 1954, he was Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal. From 1954 to 1959, he was a judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal.