George Springate

George Springate
George Springate
	Thomas Kevin Drummond
Succeeded by	Richard French
Head of the Citizenship Commission
	In office; 2008–2013
Preceded by	Michel Simard
Succeeded by	Renata Brum
Citizenship Judge of the Citizenship Commission
	In office; 1999–2013
Personal details
Born	May 12, 1938; McGill
Career history
As player
1970–72	Montreal Alouettes
Career highlights and awards
	Grey Cup champion (1970);

George Philip Gregory Springate CM (May 12, 1938 – November 20, 2019) was a Canadian police officer, lawyer, politician, professional football player, professor, and citizenship judge.

Life and career

Born in

McGill Redmen

football team.

In 1970, he played 11 games with and was part of the Grey Cup winning Montreal Alouettes. In total he played 17 games with the Alouettes over 3 seasons.

In

Liberal for the riding of Sainte-Anne. He was re-elected in 1973. In 1974 he was removed from the Liberal Caucus for voting against the French-only language bill along with John Ciaccia. In his third term as a Liberal, he represented the riding of Westmount

. He did not run in the 1981 Quebec general election.

George Springate was also a television sportcaster for CBC Montreal in the 1980s and hosted the local daily current affairs program Midday.

In 1989, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

He was a teacher in criminal and civil law at John Abbott College. He was a founding member of the "Police Technology" program at John Abbott College in 1973; he retired from teaching in 2008. He was also a columnist for The Montreal Daily News and The Sunday Express, local Montreal newspapers.

In 1999 and again in 2006, he was appointed a citizenship judge. In 2008 he was appointed Canada's Senior Citizenship Judge for a five-year term.^[2] Springate was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in April 2018. He died in Ottawa on November 20, 2019, at the age of 81.^[3]

Notes

^ "George Springate Stats - Pro Football Archives".
^ "Alumnotes". Archived from the original on January 11, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
^ Meagher, John (November 22, 2019). "George Springate, a man of many remarkable careers, dies at 81". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved June 6, 2023.

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

[1] "George Springate Stats - Pro Football Archives".

[2] "Alumnotes". Archived from the original on January 11, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2017.

[3] Meagher, John (November 22, 2019). "George Springate, a man of many remarkable careers, dies at 81". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved June 6, 2023.

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