Joseph Pope (public servant)

Sir Joseph Pope
Born	(1854-08-16)August 16, 1854 Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Died	December 2, 1926(1926-12-02) (aged 72) Ottawa, Ontario
Occupation(s)	Clerk, private secretary, civil servant, and author

Sir Joseph Pope KCMG CVO ISO (August 16, 1854 – December 2, 1926) was a Canadian public servant. He was Private Secretary to Sir John A. Macdonald from 1882 to 1891 and Assistant Clerk to the Privy Council & Under Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to 1926. From 1909 to 1925, he was the first permanent under-secretary of State for External Affairs.

Pope was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901. He was later knighted as a Knight Commander of the same order.

He married Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Henriette (Minette) Taschereau in Rivière-du-Loup, Que. on Oct 15, 1884. They had five sons and a daughter.

Pope's life story was edited and completed by his son Maurice Arthur Pope, and was published as "Public servant: the memoirs of Sir Joseph Pope" (Toronto, 1960). Sir Joseph tells the story of his conversion to the Roman Catholic faith in Why I Became a Catholic, published privately in 1921, and republished by Ignatius Press in 2001.

There is a Joseph Pope fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

External links

• Sir Joseph Pope Biography at the Canadian Encyclopedia
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• Works by Joseph Pope at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Joseph Pope at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Works by Joseph Pope at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Joseph Pope at the Internet Archive