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Line 1: {{Short description\|Canadian administrator (1933–2020)}} '''John Timothy Irvine Porteous''', [[Order of Canada\|CM]] (born 1933) is a [[Canada\|Canadian]] administrator. ▼ {{Infobox person \|birth_date={{birth date\|1933\|8\|31\|mf=y}} \|birth_place=[[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada \|death_date={{death date and age\|2020\|2\|11\|1933\|8\|31\|mf=y}} \|occupation=administrator \|alma_mater=[[McGill University]] }} ▲'''John Timothy Irvine Porteous''', [[Order of Canada\|CM]] (~~born~~August 31, 1933 – February 11, 2020) iswas a ~~[[Canada\|~~Canadian]] administrator. ==Student days== A native of [[Montreal]], ~~Quebec\|Montreal~~he studied at [[Bishop's College School]], [[Selwyn House School]]<ref>[https://archive.org/details/selwynhouseschoo1960selw/page/63/mode/1up Selwyn House School Yearbook 1960]</ref> and [[McGill University]], where he earned both a bachelor of arts and a bachelor of civil law.<ref>[https://www.selwyn.ca/news-detail?pk=1337104&fromId=268932 OBITUARY: John Timothy Irvine Porteous ’48]</ref> Porteous first met [[Pierre Trudeau]] in 1957 when the two were students traveling in West Africa for a World University Service of Canada seminar, for which Porteous represented [[McGill ~~University]]~~, where he had previously been responsible for the outstanding 1957 student production of ''[[My Fur Lady]]'', which he co-wrote. ==Early career== He and Trudeau remained friends and became even closer when Porteous took a two-year leave of absence from his law practice in 1966 and went to Ottawa to work as an executive assistant to [[cabinet of Canada\|Treasury Board]] president ~~C. M.~~[[Charles Drury]], before volunteering as a speechwriter on Trudeau's 1968 leadership campaign. He is credited with introducing Trudeau to [[Margaret Trudeau\|Margaret Sinclair]], who Trudeau later married.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Canada Council head Timothy Porteous fought fiercely for its independence \|date=2020-03-08 \|website=[[The Globe and Mail]] \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131045636/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canada-council-head-timothy-porteous-fought-fiercely-for-its/ \|archive-date=2022-01-31 \|url-status=live \|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article-canada-council-head-timothy-porteous-fought-fiercely-for-its/}}</ref> When Trudeau won the [[Liberal Party of Canada\|Liberal Party]] leadership campaign, on becoming [[Prime Minister of Canada\|Prime Minister]] later in 1968 he offered Porteous a job as his executive assistant, a position he held for five years. Since his time in government, Porteous has gone on to head both the [[Canada Council]] and the [[Ontario College of Art and Design]]. ▼ ▲When Trudeau won the [[Liberal Party of Canada\|Liberal Party]] leadership campaign, on becoming [[Prime Minister of Canada\|Prime Minister]] later in 1968 he offered Porteous a job as his executive assistant, a position he held for five years.<ref>{{cite ~~Since~~news \|last1=Goodman \|first1=Lee-Anne \|title=Winnipeg Free Press Newspaper Archives, Dec 8, 2008, p. 8 \|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/winnipeg-free-press-dec-08-2008-p-8/ \|work=NewspaperArchive.com \|date=8 December 2008 \|language=en}}</ref> After his time in government, Porteous ~~has gone~~went on to head both the [[Canada Council]] and the [[Ontario College of Art and Design]]. ==Canada Council== Porteous was perhaps best known for his 12-year tenure as associate director and director of the Canada Council.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Gill \|first1=Alexandra \|title=Nixon's bushy-haired 'bastard' bites back \|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/nixons-bushy-haired-bastard-bites-back/article753738/ \|accessdate=6 September 2018 \|publisher=The Globe and Mail \|date=March 23, 2002}}</ref> He was appointed to be a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in October 2003, in recognition of his public service. ==References== * Porteous, Barry. ''The Porteous Story'', (Kingston, Ontario, published privately 1975) {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Porteous, Timothy}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:~~Living~~2020 ~~people~~deaths]] [[Category:~~Canadian~~Bishop's ~~civil~~College ~~servants~~School alumni]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian civil servants]] [[Category:Members of the Order of Canada]] [[Category:OCAD University administrators]] [[Category:Selwyn House School alumni]]