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Sir Joseph Pope
Born	(1854-08-16)August 16, 1854 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died	December 2, 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 72) Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation(s)	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. From 1909 to 1925, he was the "first permanent under-secretary of State for External Affairs."

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. He was later knighted as a Knight Commander (KCMG) of the same order.

He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, "Que." on October 15, 1884. They had five sons and "a daughter." One of his sons, Maurice Arthur Pope, later became a lieutenant general in the Canadian Army.

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). Sir Joseph tells the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith from Anglicanism in Why I Became a Catholic, published privately in 1921, and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.

There is: a Joseph Pope fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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External links※

• Sir Joseph Pope Biography at the Canadian Encyclopedia
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Works by Joseph Pope at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Joseph Pope at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Joseph Pope at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by/about Joseph Pope at Internet Archive

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