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Patrick MacAdam

1934 – 2015

Canadian writer

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Lived 1934 – 2015 (aged 80–81). Patrick MacAdam was a Canadian writer.

Patrick "Pat" MacAdam (15 September 1934 – 19 May 2015) was a Canadian writer and longtime Conservative Party insider born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He died in Ottawa on 19 May 2015 after a years long battle with cancer.

Early and political life MacAdam attended St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia from 1952 until 1956. He served as the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper The Xaverian Weekly in 1955, the same year he met longtime friend Brian Mulroney when Mulroney was a freshman and MacAdam was a senior.

MacAdam would serve as a political advisor to Mulroney during his term as Prime Minister of Canada, taking a job at the High Commission of Canada in London. After Mulroney's term ended in 1993, MacAdam was accused of tax evasion, and eventually convicted in 1997.

Writing In addition to a weekly column in the Ottawa Sun, MacAdam wrote several books: The record speaks! (1961) Unbelievable Canadian War Stories (2006) "Big Cy" and Other Characters: Pat MacAdam's Cape Breton (2006), nominated for a Stephen Leacock Award in 2007. Gold Medal Misfits (2007) Mulroney's Man: Memoirs and Misadventures of an Ottawa Insider (2008)

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1934, Glace Bay
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St. Francis Xavier University

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Who was Patrick MacAdam?

Canadian writer

When was Patrick MacAdam born?

Patrick MacAdam was born in 1934 in Glace Bay.

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Patrick MacAdam died on 19 May 2015 in Ottawa.

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Patrick MacAdam was a writer.

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Patrick MacAdam was Canadian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Patrick MacAdam

· Wikidata: Q7147064

· DBpedia: Patrick MacAdam

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