Roland Beaudry Explained

Roland Beaudry
Constituency Mp:St. James
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Eugène Durocher
Successor:District was abolished in 1952
Term Start:1945
Term End:1953
Constituency Mp2:Saint-Jacques
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:District was created in 1952
Successor2:Charles-Édouard Campeau
Term Start2:1953
Term End2:1958
Birth Date:1906 2, df=yes
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec
Party:Liberal Party
Occupation:journalist
publicist
publisher

Joseph Marie Paul Lucien Roland Beaudry (14 February 1906 – 14 December 1964) was a Canadian politician, journalist, publicist and publisher.

Biography

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1945 election as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of St. James. He was re-elected in 1949 in St. James, and 1953 and 1957 in Saint-Jacques.

Involvement in sports

Beaudry was also a sports broadcaster and an amateur ice hockey player, a goaltender, and a member of the 1927 Montreal Victorias ice hockey team that toured Europe and played against teams in Sweden (Stockholm), France, Germany, Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Davos), Italy (Milan) and England. Also a recreational tennis player there was a story retold in the 23 February, 1935 issue of the Montreal Gazette where Beaudry during a banquet in Stockholm had agreed to play tennis against one Mr. Gay ("Mr. G") the next morning, but Beaudry slept in the next morning after a late night out the previous day, apparently unaware of that "Mr. Gay" was in fact the Swedish King Gustaf V.[1]

Notes and References

  1. "When the Victorias of Montreal were the toast of Europe" "Turning Back Hockey's Pages", MacDonald, D. A. L.. The Gazette (Montreal), 23 February 1935, pg. 14.