Guy Favreau (20 May 1917 – 11 July 1967) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge. Born in

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, the son of Léopold Favreau and Béatrice Gagnon, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and an LL.B. from the

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. He was called to the

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in 1940. He worked as a lawyer in Montreal from 1942 to 1952. In 1952, he became a member of the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission in

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. In 1955, he became Assistant

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of Justice. He helped to create the Faculty of Civil Law at the

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and taught there as well. In 1960, he returned to Montreal to work as a private lawyer. He was elected as a Liberal in the riding of Papineau in the 1963 election, and was re-elected in

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. He was

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(1963–1964),

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(1964–1965),

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(1965–1967), Minister of Indian Affairs (1963–1964) and Registrar General of Canada (1966–1967). As well, he was

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(1964) and Liberal Party House Leader (1964). Allegations regarding involvement in the prison escape of

Lucien Rivard Lucien Rivard (June 16, 1915 – February 3, 2002) was a Quebec criminal known for a sensational prison escape in 1965. Background Rivard had been engaged in robbery and smuggling drugs since the 1940s. He has been described as a "petty crook" in ...

had led to his downfall as Attorney General. He was appointed a judge of the

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on April 17, 1967, but he died shortly afterward. He was entombed at the

Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (, ) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which was founded in 1854. The entrance and the grounds run along a part of Côte-des-Neiges Ro ...

in Montreal. The

Complexe Guy-Favreau Complexe Guy-Favreau is a twelve-storey building complex containing Canadian government offices built in 1984. It is located at 200 René Lévesque Boulevard in Ville-Marie, Montréal and extends over a six-acre plot of land, formerly part of ...

, the federal government's main building in Montreal, was built in 1983 and is named in his honour.

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