Joseph Pope

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Sir Joseph Pope

Born	(1857-08-16)August 16, 1857 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died	December 2, 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 72) Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation	Clerk, private secretary, civil servant, and author

Sir Joseph Pope, KCMG CVO ISO (August 16, 1854 – December 2, 1926) was a Canadian public servant. He was Private Secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and Assistant Clerk to the Privy Council & Under Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to 1926.

Pope was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.^[1] He was later knighted as a Knight Commander of the same order.

He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que. on Oct 15, 1884, and they had five sons and a daughter

Pope’s life story was edited and completed by his son Maurice Arthur Pope, and was published as "Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope" (Toronto, 1960).

References

↑ The London Gazette: no. 27364. p. 6641. 11 October 1901.

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Name	Pope, Joseph
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Date of birth	August 16, 1857
Place of birth	Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Date of death	December 2, 1926
Place of death	Ottawa, Ontario

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