Raoul Dandurand, né le 4 novembre 1861 à Montréal et mort le 11 mars 1942, est un avocat et un homme politique canadien.
Né à Montréal le 4 novembre 1861, il étudie à l'Université Laval et il est admis au barreau du Québec. Il épouse Joséphine Marchand, la fille du premier ministre Félix-Gabriel Marchand.
Nommé au sénat par Wilfrid Laurier, il fait partie du gouvernement de Mackenzie King.
En 1911, Raoul Dandurand devint le président de la section montréalaise du Comité France-Amérique (CFA) qui venait tout juste d'être créée1. Le CFA avait pour but de rapprocher les Canadiens-français et les Français.
Il est président du Sénat du Canada de 1905 à 1909.
Il est l'un des rédacteurs du protocole de Genève. Il représente le Canada à la Société des Nations et exige l'indépendance entière de son pays du Royaume-Uni. Entre 1925 et 1926, il est président de l’Assemblée générale de la SDN.
Il meurt à Ottawa le 11 mars 1942 à l'âge de 80 ans.
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Le buste en bronze de l’honorable Raoul Dandurand repose sur une table en chêne. Il a les cheveux courts et porte une barbiche et une moustache de type Van Dyke. Il est vêtu d’une chemise, d’une cravate, d’une veste et d’un manteau à large revers. Il a accompli beaucoup au cours de sa vie et en est maintenant très fier. On le voit regarder en arrière et en conclure qu’il a très bien servi le Canada que ce soit en rapport avec ses efforts au niveau national ou international.
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Raoul Dandurand
Raoul Dandurand, PC (November 4, 1861 – March 11, 1942) was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Biography
Dandurand graduated from the Faculty of Law at Université Laval, and worked as a corporate lawyer in Quebec.
Dandurand, a Montreal lawyer, was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1898 by Sir Wilfrid Laurier. He served as Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 1905 to 1909 and was either Leader of the Government in the Canadian Senate or Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate from 1921 until 1942. As Government Leader in the Senate he served in every Cabinet formed by William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1921 until Dandurand's death in 1942.
He also served as President of the League of Nations Assembly in 1925 and was Canada's delegate to the League from 1927 to 1930. He is perhaps best remembered for having said, in 1924, that in international affairs Canada was “a fireproof house, far from inflammable materials.”[citation needed]
King relied heavily on Dandurand and Ernest Lapointe for advice on Quebec as well as on international affairs and it was Dandurand who suggested Louis St. Laurent for King's Cabinet after Lapointe's death.
Family
In January 1886, Dandurand married Joséphine Marchand, daughter of Quebec Premier and dramatist Hon Félix-Gabriel Marchand and his wife, Marie Herselie Turgeon. Josephine was born in Saint-Jean, Quebec, and was educated at the Convent of Les Dames de la Congregation de Notre Dame a branch of Villa-Maria. Her literary works included dramatic pieces, papers and essays on subjects of public interest and in relation to women's duties, rights and place. She founded and edited `Le Coin du Feu`, a woman's paper. She was a member and office-bearer of the National Council of Women of Canada, in which she advanced practical schemes for the promotion of the industrial and fine arts in Canada, and establishment of a Department of Art. She was a member and office-bearer of the Women's Historical Society, the Victorian Order of Nurses. She was President of the Crèche of the Sisters of Mercy, Montreal, Quebec. In 1898 she was created an Officier Academic by the French Government. In 1900, she was appointed as a Commissioner from the Government of Canada to the Paris Exposition. at Ottawa. In March, 1903, she delivered an address before the Alliance Francaise on "La Sociabilite."
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The bronze bust of the Honorable Raoul Dandurand rests on an oak table. He has short hair and a Van Dyke type beard and mustache. He is wearing a shirt, tie, jacket, and a coat with a large lapel. He has accomplished a lot in his life and is now very proud of it. We see him looking back and concluding that he has served Canada very well in terms of his efforts at the national and international level.
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