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Jean Drapeau, (18 February 1916 – 12 August 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986. During his tenure as mayor he was responsible for the construction of the Montreal Metro system and the Place des Arts concert hall, for conceiving Expo 67, for securing the 1976 Summer Olympics, and for helping to bring Major League Baseball to Montreal with the creation of the Montreal Expos. Although he is remembered as a visionary, Drapeau's mishandling of the construction of the Olympic Games facilities resulted in massive cost overruns and left the city with a debt of over $1 billion that has taken its citizens over thirty years to fully pay off. == Early life and career == The son of Joseph-Napoléon Drapeau and Alberta (Berthe) Martineau, Jean Drapeau was born in Montreal in 1916. His father, an insurance broker, city councilor and election worker for the Union nationale, introduced him to politics. Jean Drapeau studied law at the Université de Montréal. Drapeau was a protégé of nationalist priest Lionel Groulx in the 1930s and 1940s,〔"( Jean Drapeau )" in the Canadian Encyclopedia online〕 and was a member of André Laurendeau's anti-conscription ''Ligue pour la défense du Canada''. In 1942, he ran as a candidate of the nationalist ''Bloc Populaire'', which opposed Canadian conscription during World War II, in a federal by-election (see Second Conscription Crisis). Drapeau lost the election. He was also a ''Bloc populaire'' candidate in the 1944 provincial election but was badly defeated in his Montreal constituency.〔 He began his practice as a criminal lawyer in Montreal in 1944. During the Asbestos Strike of 1949, he took on the legal defence of some of the strikers.〔 In 1945, he married Marie-Claire Boucher. They had three sons. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Drapeau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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