Maurice Arthur Pope, C.B.

Order of the Bath

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, M.C.

Military Cross

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 (9 August 1889 – 20 September 1978) was a Canadian

Canada

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 civil engineer

Civil engineer

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, army officer and diplomat.

Born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec

Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec

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, the son of Sir Joseph Pope

Joseph Pope

Sir Joseph Pope, KCMG CVO ISO 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.He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette Taschereau in...

, Prime Minister John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald

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's principal secretary

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, and grandson of Sir Henri-Thomas Taschereau

Henri-Thomas Taschereau

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 and William Henry Pope, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from McGill University

McGill University

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 in 1911. He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

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 as a construction engineer until joining the Royal Canadian Engineers in 1915. He served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

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 in France. After the war, he remained in the Canadian Army. During World War II

World War II

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, he was Brigadier General

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 of the Canadian Military headquarters in London, Vice-Chief of the general staff in Ottawa, Chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff Mission in Washington, head of the Censorship Branch and military staff officer to Prime Minister Mackenzie King. From 1945 to 1950, he was Head of the Canadian Military Mission in Berlin. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-General

Lieutenant-General (Canada)

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.

From 1950 to 1953, he was the Canadian Ambassador to Belgium. From 1953 to 1956, he was the Canadian Ambassador to Spain. He retired in 1956 and lived in Ottawa.

His memoir was entitled Soldiers and politicians: the memoirs of Lt.-Gen. Maurice A. Pope C.B., M.C (University of Toronto Press, 1962). He also wrote a book about his father, Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope (Oxford University Press, 1960).