Paul-Émilien Dalpé (1919 - April 16, 1994), C.M., also known as Paul-Émile Dalpé, was a Canadian

labour unionist The Ulster Unionist Labour Association (UULA) was an association of trade unionists founded by Edward Carson in June 1918, aligned with the Ulster Unionists in Ireland. Members were known as Labour Unionists. In Britain, 1918 and 1919 were marke ...

and

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. He was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and was the founding president of the

Centrale des syndicats démocratiques The Congress of Democratic Trade Unions ( French: ''Centrale des syndicats démocratiques'', CSD) is a national trade union centre in Quebec formed on 8 June 1972 in response to a split within the Confederation of National Trade Unions Confédér ...

(CSD), a Quebec labour central body. In 1966 he was president of the National Federation of Services, part of the Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN) which represented hospital workers. In 1972, he was one of the dissident members of the CSN executive who led the split of the CSN that resulted in the creation of the more politically moderate CSD, and became the CSD's founding president from 1972 until 1981. After he retired, he became a part-time member of the

Economic Council of Canada The Economic Council of Canada (originally the National Productivity Council) is a former Crown corporation that was owned by the Government of Canada and was established in 1963 under the ''Economic Council of Canada Act''. When the Council made ...

Honours

On December 14, 1981, he was appointed as a ''Member'' of the

Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ...

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1919 births 1994 deaths Members of the Order of Canada People from Saint-Jérôme Trade unionists from Quebec {{worker-activist-stub