Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Born 1919, Died 2000

Born

• October 18, 1919, Montreal, Quebec

Education

• Jean de Brébeuf College, B.A. 1940
• University of Montreal, LL.L. 1943
• Harvard University, M.A. Political Economy 1945
• École des sciences politiques, Paris 1946 - 1947
• London School of Economics 1947 - 1948

Personal Life

• Married 1971, Margaret Sinclair (b. 1948)
• Three sons (one died accidentally in 1998)
• Divorced 1984
• One daughter

Occupations

• Lawyer (called to the Quebec Bar in 1943, to the Ontario Bar in 1967)
• 1949 - 1951 Advisor to the Privy Council
• 1950 Co-founder and director, Cité libre
• 1961 - 1965 Researcher, Institut de recherches en droit public
• Author
• Law consultant

Political Party

• Liberal
• 1968 - 1984 Party Leader

Constituencies

• 1965 - 1984 Mount Royal, Quebec

Other Ministries

• 1967 - 1968 Justice
• 1968 Acting President of the Privy Council

Political Record

• Official Languages Act 1969
• October Crisis (implementation of War Measures Act) 1970
• Wage and Price Controls 1975
• Leader of the Opposition 1979 - 1980
• Significant role in the victory of the "No" forces in the Quebec Referendum on Sovereignty-Association 1980
• Appointed Jeanne Sauvé first woman Speaker of the House of Commons 1980
• Canadian Charter of Rights 1982
• Constitution Act 1982
• Appointed Jeanne Sauvé, Canada's first woman governor general 1984

Died

• September 28, 2000, Montreal, Quebec
• Grave site: Saint-Rémi-de-Napierville, Quebec

Source: Canada's Prime Ministers, 1867-1994. [Ottawa]: National Archives of Canada, c1994. 20 p.