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Place of Birth: Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
About Yves Pratte
- Yves Pratte (7 March 1925 – 26 June 1988) was a Canadian lawyer and jurist who served briefly as a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, son of Garon Pratte and G.
- Rivard.
- Cousin of Claude Pratte who is son of Gaston Pratte and Jeannette Verge.
- He was the father of Me Guy Pratte, a prominent lawyer who practices in both Ontario and Quebec, and André Pratte, editorial pages editor with Montreal's daily newspaper La Presse, and a fervent federalist voice in Quebec. Pratte studied law at Université Laval and the University of Toronto.
- Following his admission to the bar in the province of Quebec in 1947, he practised law in Quebec City, established a successful law firm, and continued his association with Laval, becoming its Dean of Law from 1962–1965.
- Between 1965 and 1968, he served as special legal counsel to Quebec premiers Lesage and Johnson.
- From 1968–1974, he served as the chairman of Air Canada, which was then under the control of the Canadian National Railway, a Crown corporation.
- On 1 October 1977, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on the recommendation of Pierre Trudeau.
- His tenure on the court was brief – Pratte served less than two years before stepping down for health reasons.
- Upon his resignation on 30 June 1979, he returned to private practice, joining the influential Montreal firm of Courtois Clarkson.
- Pratte died suddenly, of a heart attack, on 26 June 1988, in Montreal.
- His body was interred in the Cimetière Notre-Dame-de-Belmont, in Sainte-Foy, Quebec. Today, the Yves Pratte Foundation named in his honour promotes student exchanges between the University of Toronto and Université Laval.
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