Maurice Jean Nadon (July 8, 1920 – December 21, 2009) was the 16th
Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, serving from January 1, 1974 to August 31, 1977.
Nadon was born in
Mattawa, Ontario, joined the RCMP in 1939 and retired from the force in 1977.
He was the first and only
French Canadian
French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French people, French colonists first arriving in Canada (New France), France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of ...
commissioner of the RCMP.
In 1991 the RCMP commissioned
RCMP vessel ''Nadon'', a patrol boat and named for the former Commissioner. In 2011, the new RCMP Headquarters (M. J. Nadon Government of Canada Building) in Ottawa was named in his honour.
Nadon died in 2009 in
Pembroke, Ontario
Pembroke ( ) is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario at the confluence of the Muskrat River (Ontario), Muskrat River and the Ottawa River in the Ottawa Valley, northwest of Ottawa. Though containing the administrative headquarters of Renfre ...
and was buried at
Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa. Predeceased by his wife Madeleine Desrosiers, Nadon was survived by son Robert and daughter Suzanne.
References
Royal Canadian Mounted Police commissioners
1920 births
2009 deaths
Burials at Beechwood Cemetery (Ottawa)
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