Roland Beaudry
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". 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.[1]
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.[2]
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ Roland Beaudry – Parliament of Canada biography
- ↑ "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.
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".