Cyril Malcolm LAPOINTE

LAPOINTE, Cyril Malcolm "Mac" Former Chief Librarian of The Montreal Star Peacefully January 25, 2005 at the age of 96. Eldest son of the late Joseph Leo Lapointe and the late Harriet Elizabeth Hattie Bray, he was born on December 12, 1908 at Webwood, Ontario. On November 22, 1927 he joined the editorial department of John Dougall and Son, Montreal, publishers of Witness and Canadian Homestead, World Wide and Northern Messenger, on which he served until all but the latter ceased publication at the end of April 1938. In this period he was a member of the Montreal Branch of the Canadian Authors Association and the Newspaper Guild. For two years he was secretary of the Montreal Branch of the League for Social Reconstruction and in 1938, briefly, National Secretary of the LSR. In 1925, during an emergency in the federal election campaign, he was Chairman of the Interim Executive Committee of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the province of Quebec. On June 6, 1938 he became Assistant to the News Editor of The Family Herald and Weekly Star and continued in various editorial responsibilities until July 12, l949 when he was transferred to the Library of The Montreal Star. He retired from that work at the end of 1973. Mr. Lapointe is pre-deceased by his brother, George Milton and sister-in-law, Kathleen (Sangster) Lapointe and is survived by his brother, Jean-Paul Lapointe of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, his sister, Soeur Kathleen Lapointe, M.A., Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie, Montreal, his nieces "Betty" Mrs. Robert Taylor of Perth, Ontario, "Babs" Barbara Lapointe of Gloucester, Ontario, and Danielle Lapointe of Ste. Foy, Quebec, nephews "Bobby" Robert Lapointe of Trois Rivieres and Michel Lapointe of Montreal, Quebec. Mr. Lapointe had been a member of the Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections, the Ontario Genealogical Society and the Elbeetian Legion of old time Lone Scouts of America. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care of First Memorial Funeral Services-Fairview Chapel. For more information please contact (613) 860-2424 Published in the Ottawa Citizen from 1/28/2005 - 1/29/2005 OBITUARY CYRIL MALCOLM "MAC" LAPOINTE Former Chief Librarian of The Montreal Star, peacefully January 25, 2005 at the age of ninety-six. Eldest son of the late Joseph Leo Lapointe and the late Harriet Elizabeth "Hattie" Bray, he was born on December 12, 1908 at Webwood, Ontario. From 1927-1938 he served in the editorial department of John Dougall and Son, Montreal, publishers of Witness and Canadian Homestead, World Wide and Northern Messenger, and was a member of the Montreal Branch of the Canadian Authors Association and the Newspaper Guild. For two years he was secretary of the Montreal Branch of the League for Social Reconstruction and, briefly in 1938, was National Secretary. In 1925 he was Chairman of the Interim Executive Committee of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the province of Quebec. In 1938 he began editorial responsibilities at The Family Herald and Weekly Star. He was transferred to the Library of The Montreal Star in 1949 and retired as Chief Librarian at the end of 1973. Mr. Lapointe is predeceased by his brother, George Milton and sister-in-law, Kathleen (Sangster) Lapointe and is survived by his brother, Jean-Paul Lapointe, his sister, Soeur Kathleen Lapointe, M.A., Franciscaines Missionnaires de Marie, his nieces "Betty" Mrs. Robert Taylor, "Babs" Barbara Lapointe, and Danielle Lapointe, nephews "Bobby" Robert Lapointe and Michel Lapointe. For more information please contact First Memorial Funeral Services in Ottawa (613) 860-2424. Published in the Montreal Gazette from 1/28/2005 - 1/29/2005