ALLARD, Hector + Marie-Nicole Auffray (84 ENGLISH)
ALLARD, HALLARD, HECTOR
HECTOR- son of Alexandre Allard+ Virginie Beauchemin
n. 1902-05-11 Poser, MB
m 1927-07-06 France+Marie-Nicole Auffray (jules)
d 1984-05-21 in B.C. but buried in MB
Canadian ambassador in various countries for 35 years.
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Hector Allard, former Canadian ambassador, was born in Minnewaken which became Lunbar, MB in 1902. He was the son of Alexandre Allard and Virginie Beauchemin. On his father's side, he was the grandson of Octave Allard (who came from Quebec in 1858) and of Celeste Lagimodiere (granddaughter of Marie-Anne Gaboury, the first white woman to settle in the West) and of Jean-Baptiste Lagimodiere well-known by everyone. It is through them that the Lagimodiere family (Real Beauchemin) that Hector Allard had Indian blood in his veins, a fact that both he and his wife were very proud of.
Hector studied at the Baie St. Paul School in Manitoba, then at the St. Boniface College where he obtained his B.A. and his M.A. degrees. There he won many bursaries. In 1924, he taught at the Westley College (which later became the University of Winnipeg.) In 1926, having received the Rhodes Bursary, he left for St. John s College in Oxford. In 1929, he received an Honors B.A. then a M.A.
While in Europe, he studied at Strasbourg, France and in Geneva, Switzerland. Then he returned to Canada in 1929 and became assistant professor of French at the University of Alberta. Since he had passed the exams in Foreign Affairs, he was offered a position in Ottawa in 1932. There he spent 35 years in the diplomatic service. While there he was part of the Canadian embassy in the United States, in Mexico and in Belgium. In the autumn of 1956, he was named Ambassador to Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic with residence in Havana. Finally he ended his diplomatic career in Denmark for seven years as the dean of the Diplomatic Corps.
In 1967, he organized a committee to establish Louis Riel. His nephew, Jean Allard was the secretary and it was in 1971 that the Premier of Manitoba and future governor-general of Canada, his Excellency, Edward Schreyer, unveiled a monument south of the Manitoba Parliament Buildings to Riel. When hearing of the death of Hector Allard, Edward Schreyer said, "He was a great ambassador who brought honor to Canada and to Manitoba.
Hector Allard was the first French-speaking scholar to receive a Rhodes scholarship outside of Quebec, the first ambassador from Manitoba, one of the first hockey players to represent Canada in many countries when he was in Oxford and he was with Clarence Campbell.
He was a member of the Alumni Association of the University of Manitoba, of the Association of the University of Manitoba, of the Association of Canadian Rhodes Scholars, a life member of the St. Boniface Historical Society, a member of the Saint Francois Xavier Historical Society, of the Moliere Dramatic group, of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, of the Museum of Man and of Nature, of the Canadian Federation of wildlife of UNICEF Canada.
Ref. La Liberte, March 27, 1984
Obit sent to me by my cousin Jean Cimon, son-in-la w of Hector Allard
Nota Bene: It is important to note that Hector Allard made reference to two important points:
1 - The acknowledgement of the importance of the French-Canadians in the War of 1812. The Canadian Government got and spent $25,000 ,000 to show us a biased video which we saw regularly for over one year. What a waste_.this video did not represent the truth. Mr. Harper should know that the Quebecois know better than that.
2 - The injustice done to Riel and to the Metis Nation should be admitted to and apologized for. The reason why Riel was wanted, although he had not even shot one bullet in the War at Batoche, is truly because he was the chief of the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Metis Nation.
Hector Allard' s ancestral lineage:
1 - ALLARD, Jacques + Jacqueline Frerot de Blacqueville, dio. Rouen, France.
2 - ALLARD, Francois + Jeanne Anguille m. 1671-11-01, Quebec
3 - ALLARD, Andre + Anne Le Marche m. 1695-11-22
4 - ALLARD, Pierre + Madeleine Paquet m. 1724-11-15, Quebec, QC
5 - ALLARD, Pierre + Marie Angelique Lepine, m.1749-09-08, Charlesbourg, QC
6 - ALLARD, Pierre + Marie-Louise Allaire m.1784-02-23,Notre Dame de Quebec,
7 - ALLARD, Antoine + Theotiste Baillargeon m. 1823-02-11, St. Cuthbert, QC
8 - ALLARD, Octave + Celeste Lagimodiere, m 1860-_..St. Boniface, MN
9 - ALLARD, Alexandre +Virginie Beauchemin m. 1887-01-25, St. Charles, MN
10- ALLARD, Hector
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