Walter-Patrice O'Leary

Walter-Patrice O'Leary (3 July 1910 – 13 September 1989) was a Canadian journalist, political activist and trade unionist.

Biography O'Leary was born in Berthierville, Quebec on 3 July 1910. He attended the Collège Saint-Joseph in Berthierville before travelling to Belgium to study at a Roman Catholic seminary in Wavre. Later, he attended the Institut supérieur de commerce Saint-Louis in Brussels, where he earned a license in commercial sciences, and completed licenses in consular and maritime sciences at the Institut Saint-Ignace in Antwerp. O'Leary also studied at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City), where he earned a license in philosophy and a Master of Arts in Spanish.

O'Leary published articles in various French-language magazines and newspapers, including L'Indépendance, L'Ordre, and L'Unité.

Personal life

O'Leary was born to Emile O'Leary and Fébronie Dostaler and had two sisters—Marguerite and Alice—and a brother, Émile-Dostaler.

He married Gratia Parent on 23 January 1960, at the age of 49. He fathered two children: Christian and Pascal.

Death O'Leary died on 13 September 1989 in Montreal, aged 79.