Jean Migneault was a former Deputy Supreme Knight of the

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, a position he held from 2000 to 2006. Before that Migneault was Assistant Supreme Treasurer and Supreme Treasurer. He is a native of

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, Canada and holds a degree in management and administration from the

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in Montreal. In 1985, the citizens of St-Basile le Grand named him Citizen of the Year in honor of his many civic contributions. In 1989, he received l'Ordre du Merite Colombien (the Order of Merit in Columbianism), the highest decoration of the province of Quebec for the Knights of Columbus. In 2000,

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named Migneault a Knight of the

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. He has been a Grand Officer of the Order of St. Francis since 2002 and was promoted to the office of Grand Croix in 2004. He became a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in 2004. He died in 2008.

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