Joseph Pope (public servant), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Pope (public servant)

Canadian civil servant

Date of Birth: 16-Aug-1857

Place of Birth: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Date of Death: 02-Dec-1926

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sir Joseph Pope (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 of the same order. He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que.
on Oct 15, 1884.
They had five sons and a daughter. 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 in Why I Became a Catholic, published privately in 1921, and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.