The Honourable Maurice Sauvé, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (September 20, 1923 – April 13, 1992) was a Canadian economist, politician, cabinet minister, businessman, and husband of Jeanne Sauvé

Jeanne Sauvé

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, 23rd Governor General of Canada

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Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1962 federal elections

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 as a Liberal

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 representing the riding of Îles-de-la-Madeleine

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. He was re-elected in 1963

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 and 1965

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. He was defeated in 1968

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. From 1964 to 1968, he was the Minister of Forestry (after 1966 renamed Minister of Forestry and Rural Development).

He was the first President of the World Assembly of Youth

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 (WAY), and served for a period from 1949 to 1952.

From 1985 to 1991, he was Chancellor of the University of Ottawa

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In 1984, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada

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 as the Viceregal consort of Canada

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External links

• Maurice Sauvé at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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