Marcel Cadieux
Marcel Cadieux Canadian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 1970–1975 | |
Prime Minister | Pierre Trudeau |
Preceded by | Edgar Ritchie |
Succeeded by | Jake Warren |
Personal details | |
Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | June 17, 1915
Died | March 19, 1981 Pompano Beach, Florida, U.S. | (aged 65)
Marcel Cadieux, CC (June 17, 1915 – March 19, 1981) was a Canadian civil servant and diplomat.
Early life and education
Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the Collège André Grasset, obtained a Master's degree in law from the Université de Montréal,[1] and studied constitutional law at McGill University in Montreal.
Career
Cadieux joined the Department of External Affairs in 1941,[2] served as senior adviser to Canadian members of the International Control Commission in Vietnam in 1954, and became the legal advisor to the Department of External Affairs in 1956.
A professor of international law at the
Cadieux served on the negotiating committee to determine maritime boundaries with the United States. and head of the Canadian Mission to the European Communities from 1975.
He was appointed to advise the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 1978. He also wrote several books on Canadian diplomacy.
In 1969, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Family
He married Anita Comtois, and they had two sons.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7710-8139-2. p. 38–.
- ISBN 978-0-7735-2025-7. p. 87–88.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-6833-0. p. 110–.
- ISBN 978-0-8020-6873-6. p. 16–.
- ISBN 978-0-7748-4088-0. p. 377–.
- ISBN 978-0-7748-3640-1. p. 73–.
- ISBN 978-0-919614-96-3. p. 175–.
- Marcel Cadieux at The Canadian Encyclopedia Archived at the Wayback Machine.
- Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada Complete List of Posts Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Office of the Governor General of Canada. Order of Canada citation. Queen's Printer for Canada. Retrieved 26 May 2010
- The Good Fight: Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy by Brendan Kelly, UBC Press, 2019.