Guy Favreau, (May 20, 1917 – July 11, 1967) was a

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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 Deputy Minister 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

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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), 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

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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

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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 t ...

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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Favreau, Guy 1917 births 1967 deaths French Quebecers Judges in Quebec Lawyers from Montreal Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Politicians from Montreal Université de Montréal alumni 20th-century Canadian lawyers Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery