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.
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.
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]