Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Sauvé
Fusiliers Mont-Royal

I realize that my absence may cause certain inconveniences. But as the war wears its way to the end—and it is the general conviction it will be this year—we much all of us realize the enormous task which awaits the government after the war.

(Montreal Gazette, 29 Jul Oct 1944, 9)

Born on 23 March 1907 in Saint-Benoît, Quebec, Joseph-Mignault-Paul Sauvé was a Université de Montréal graduate, lawyer, member of the Quebec Legislative Assembly since 1930. He represented Deux-Montagnes, succeeding his father, the former Quebec Conservative Party leader and senator. Defeated in 1935, he returned the next year as part of the newly formed Union Nationale Party of Maurice Duplessis and served as assembly president. Re-elected in the November 1939 election and speculated to be a potential new leader of the party, he instead would turn to military duties with Fusiliers Mont-Royal.

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