Roland Beaudry
Joseph Marie Paul Lucien Roland Beaudry was a Canadian politician, journalist, publicist and publisher.Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1945 election as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of St. James. He was re-elected in 1949 in St. James, and 1953 and 1957 in Saint-Jacques.Involvement in sports
Beaudry was also a sports broadcaster and an amateur ice hockey player, a goaltender, and a member of the 1927 Montreal Victorias ice hockey team that toured Europe and played against teams in Sweden, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and England. Also a recreational tennis player there was a story retold in the February 23, 1935 issue of the Montreal Gazette where Beaudry during a banquet in Stockholm had agreed to play tennis against one Mr. Gay the next morning, but Beaudry slept in the next morning after a late night out the previous day, apparently unaware of that "Mr. Gay" was in fact the Swedish king Gustaf V.
