John W. Grace, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn W. Grace
Canadian civil servant
Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1927
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Date of Death: 05-Feb-2009
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About John W. Grace
- John William Grace (6 January 1927 – 5 February 2009) was the first Privacy Commissioner of Canada.He was born in Ottawa, Ontario and attended St.
- Patrick's High School there.
- His education continued in Ottawa at St.
- Patrick's College where he earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma and where he was close classmates with Douglas Roche and John Turner who became federal politicians.
- Grace then moved to Washington, D.C.
- where he attended The Catholic University of America.
- After receiving a Master of Arts there in 1952, he proceeded to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan in 1958.In 1958, Grace returned to Canada and entered journalism, becoming a member of the Ottawa Journal's editorial board.
- He remained with that newspaper until its demise in 1980, two years after he became its chief editor and vice-president.
- Grace had directed the Journal's editorial policy since 1972, after being an associate editor since 1962.
- Between 1971 and 1977, Grace was also a member of the Canada Council, serving there for two terms.
- After the Ottawa Journal closed, Grace was appointed to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a full-time commissioner. Grace served a seven-year term as the first Privacy Commissioner of Canada, starting in 1983.
- This Canadian federal agency is responsible for supervising the private and public management of personal information.
- In 1990, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney appointed Grace as the Information Commissioner of Canada, but by 1992 Grace confronted the Mulroney government regarding its refusal to release the results of government-funded polls regarding national unity.
- Grace remained Information Commissioner until 1998. He was a part-time lecturer at the University of Ottawa where he was a member of its board of governors for four terms.Grace died following a heart attack at his Ottawa home on 5 February 2009, aged 82.
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