Roger Chauvin

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Biography

It was in the Centre-Sud district of Montreal that Roger was born on January 29, 1916, while the First World War was raging on the other side of the Atlantic. The following month saw the birth of Jean Drapeau, the illustrious future mayor of Montreal. The same year, the Montreal Canadiens hockey club won the very first Stanley Cup in its history while the Russian Revolution percolated discreetly in the land of the tsars.

Roger's mother, Germaine Lévesque, was not yet seventeen when she gave birth to her son. This small age difference between the young mother and her only son will shape their relationship in a very special way until the end of their lives.

Roger Chauvin later volunteered in the Canadian Armed Forces and served as a Lieutenant with the Fusiliers Mont-Royal Regiment. He fought in France at the beginning of the Normandy offensive and was wounded by enemy fire in July of 1944 near Caen. He was lucky enough to be brought back behind the lines while almost all of his platoon was decimated by a German counter-offensive.

Roger Chauvin worked most of his professional life in Canada for both the federal and provincial Immigration Ministries.

He passed away in 1988.

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