Louis Audette

Louis de la Chesnaye Audette, OC (April 7, 1907 – April 2, 1995^{[citation needed]}) was a Canadian lawyer, naval officer and civil servant.

Born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son of Louis-Arthur Audette and Mary-Grace Stuart, the tenth child of Andrew Stuart, he was educated as a lawyer and practiced in Montreal during the 1930s.^{[citation needed]} During World War II, he served with the Royal Canadian Navy and commanded several ships (HMCS Pictou, Amherst, Coaticook, and ) in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. He was mentioned in dispatches and left the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant commander.^{[citation needed]} As a reserve officer, he was later promoted to commander.^{[citation needed]}

After the war, from 1947 to 1959, he a member of the and its chairman from 1954 to 1959. From 1959 to 1972, he was Chairman of the .^[1]

In 1974, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. His oral history of his wartime adventures was published in Salty Dips Vol. 2 (1985.)^[2]

References[]

^ National Defence Headquarters Directorate of History and Heritage. "Louis de la Chesnaye Audette fonds". Archeion. Archives Association of Ontario. Retrieved 2014-03-18.
^ Salty Dips, named for the sorts of stories sailors tell, was published by the Ottawa branch of the Naval Officers' Association of Canada.