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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1912-1991)}}
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| honorific-prefix = [[Brigadier general#Canada|Brigadier-General]] [[the Honourable]]
| name             = Charles Drury
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|CBE|DSO|QC|size=100%}}
| image            = Charles Mills Drury.jpg
| office          =[[Minister of Public Works (Canada)|Minister of Public Works]]
| primeminister      = [[Pierre Trudeau]]
| term_start         = 8 August 1974
| term_end           = 14 September 1976
| predecessor        = [[Jean-Eudes Dubé]]
| successor          = [[J. Judd Buchanan]]
| office1          = [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Minister of Finance]]
| primeminister1   = Pierre Trudeau
| term_start1      = 10 September 1975
| term_end1        = 25 September 1975
| predecessor1     = [[John Turner]]
| successor1       = [[Donald Stovel Macdonald]]
| termlabel1       = Acting
| office2         = [[President of the Treasury Board]]
| primeminister2  =  Pierre Trudeau
| term_start2     = 6 July 1968
| term_end2       = 7 August 1974
| predecessor2    = [[Edgar Benson]]
| successor2      = [[Jean Chrétien]]
| office3            = [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Minister of National Defence]]
| primeminister3   = Pierre Trudeau
| term_start3       = 7 September 1972
| term_end3         = 26 November 1972
| predecessor3      = Jean-Eudes Dubé (acting)
| successor3        = [[James Armstrong Richardson]]
| termlabel3       = Acting
| primeminister4   = Pierre Trudeau
| term_start4       = 17 September 1970
| term_end4         = 23 September 1970
| predecessor4      = [[Léo Cadieux]]
| successor4        = Donald Stovel Macdonald
| termlabel4        = Acting
| riding5           = [[Saint-Henri—Westmount|Westmount]]
| parliament5       = Canadian
| term_start5       = 25 June 1968
| term_end5         = 26 January 1978
| predecessor5      = ''Riding created''
| successor5        = [[Don Johnston]]
| riding6          = [[Saint-Antoine—Westmount]]
| parliament6      = Canadian
| term_start6      = 18 June 1962
| term_end6        = 24 June 1968
| predecessor6     = [[A. Ross Webster]]
| successor6       = ''Riding dissolved''
| birth_name       = Charles Mills Drury
| birth_date       = {{birth date|df=yes|1912|5|17}}
| birth_place      = [[Westmount, Quebec]], Canada
| death_date       = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|1|12|1912|5|17}}
| death_place      = [[Gatineau]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| spouse           = {{marriage|Jane Ferrier Counsell|1939|1971|end=died}} <ref>[http://www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/DruryCM.htm BGen Charles Drury], The Canada Veterans Hall of Valour.</ref>
| relations        = 
| children         = 4
| relatives        = [[Walter L. Gordon]] (brother-in-law)
| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
| residence        = 
| alma_mater       = 
| occupation       = 
| profession       = 
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|nickname          = 
|allegiance        = Canada
|branch            = [[Canadian Army]]
|serviceyears      = 1933–1970
|rank              = [[Brigadier general#Canada|Brigadier-General]]
|unit              = [[Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery|Royal Canadian Artillery]]
|commands          = 4th Field Regiment, [[Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery|Royal Canadian Artillery]]
|battles           = [[World War II]]
|mawards            = [[Distinguished Service Order]]
}}

[[Brigadier general#Canada|Brigadier-General]] '''Charles Mills''' "'''Bud'''" '''Drury''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|CBE|DSO|QC|size=100%}} (17 May 1912 &ndash; 12 January 1991) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] military officer, lawyer, civil servant, businessman and politician.<ref name=encyclopedia>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-mills-drury Charles Mills Drury], ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]''.</ref>

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Westmount, Quebec]], he was the elder son of Victor Montague Drury (1884–1962), a prominent businessman who was the son of Major-General [[Charles William Drury]] (1856–1913) and the brother-in-law of [[Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook]].<ref name="Fong2008">{{cite book|author=William Fong|title=J.W. McConnell: Financier, Philanthropist, Patriot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M365j6IRtzgC&pg=PA441|date=24 October 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7468-7|page=441}}</ref> He was educated at [[Selwyn House School]] and [[Bishop's College School]],<ref>[https://archive.org/details/selwynhouseschoo1950selw/page/17/mode/1up Selwyn House School Yearbook 1950]</ref> and he later attended the [[Royal Military College of Canada]], [[McGill University]] ([[Bachelor of Civil Law|B.C.L.]], 1936) and the [[University of Paris]].<ref name=gov>{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001486476.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123045919/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001486476.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 January 2017 |title=Charles M. Drury |department=Office of Central Reference |website=Central Intelligence Agency |access-date=3 January 2021}}</ref>

==Career==
Drury served in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] from 1933 to 1936,<ref name=Parliament>[https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=8581 The Hon. Charles Drury], Parliament of Canada biography. </ref> then he practised law from 1936 to 1939.<ref name=gov/> During [[World War II]], he was a [[Canadian Army]] officer and from March−July 1944 commanded the 4th Field Regiment of the [[Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery|Royal Canadian Artillery]], part of the [[2nd Canadian Division|2nd Canadian Infantry Division]], which took part in [[Operation Overlord]], before being made the 2nd Division's [[Staff (military)|General Staff Officer Grade 1]] (GSO1) and later becoming the [[Commander, Royal Artillery]] (CRA) of the [[4th Canadian Division|4th Canadian (Armoured) Division]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/Drury/Charles_Mills/Canada.html|title = Biography of Brigadier Charles Mills Drury (1912 – 1991), Canada}}</ref> He was promoted to the rank of [[Brigadier general#Canada|Brigadier-General]] in 1945.<ref name=Parliament/> After the war, he headed the [[United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration]] mission in Poland from 1945 to 1947.<ref name=gov/>

He then entered the [[Canadian civil service]] and was appointed as [[Deputy minister (Canada)|deputy minister]] of the [[Department of National Defence (Canada)|Department of National Defence]] from 1949 to 1955.<ref name=Parliament/> He spent 1955 to 1962 working on private family business before running for election to the [[House of Commons of Canada]].<ref name=gov/>

Drury was elected as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] party [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the [[Montreal]] riding of [[Saint-Antoine—Westmount]] (later [[Westmount (electoral district)|Westmount]]) in the [[1962 Canadian federal election|1962 federal election]]. He was re-elected in the [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963]], [[1965 Canadian federal election|1965]], [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968]], [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972]] and [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974]] elections.

He held many [[Minister of the Crown|ministerial]] positions in the governments of [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime ministers]] [[Lester Pearson]] and [[Pierre Trudeau]], including Defence Production, Industry, Trade and Commerce, [[List of Canadian Presidents of the Treasury Board|Treasury Board]], [[List of Canadian Ministers of National Defence|National Defence]] (acting), [[List of Canadian Ministers of Public Works|Public Works]] and [[List of Canadian Ministers of Finance|Finance]] (acting).<ref name=Parliament/>

After leaving politics in 1978, Drury became chairman of the [[National Capital Commission]] from 1978 to 1984. He was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1980.<ref>{{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=458|accessdate=3 January 2021}}.</ref>

==Electoral record (partial)==
{{1974 Canadian federal election/Westmount}}

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-mills-drury Charles Mills Drury] at ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]''
*[https://generals.dk/general/Drury/Charles_Mills/Canada.html Generals of World War II]

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