What is Allan MacEachen?
[[File:Allan MacEachen.jpg|thumb|right|200px|MacEachen in 1954]] '''Allan Joseph MacEachen''', [[Order of Canada|OC]] (July 6, 1921 &ndash; September 12, 2017) was a [[Canada|Canadian]] politician. He was born in [[Inverness, Nova Scotia|Inverness]], [[Nova Scotia]]. He was the first [[Deputy Prime Minister of Canada]], serving from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 during [[Pierre Trudeau]] tenure as prime minister. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5601|title=Governor General Announces New Appointments to the Order of Canada|access-date=2015-11-23|archive-date=2009-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121152728/http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5601|url-status=dead}}</ref> MacEachen died on September 12, 2017 at the age of 96.<ref>{{cite news |date=September 13, 2017|title= Former federal Liberal cabinet minister Allan MacEachen dies at age 96 |url=https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/former-federal-liberal-cabinet-minister-allan-maceachen-dies-at-age-96|work=National Post|location=Ottawa|access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [https://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1147428614862&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News Allan MacEachen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929171630/http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar%2FLayout%2FArticle_Type1&c=Article&pubid=968163964505&cid=1147428614862&col=968705899037&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News%2FNews |date=2007-09-29 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:MacEachen, Allan}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:People from Nova Scotia]] [[Category:Deputy Prime Ministers of Canada]] [[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada]] {{bio-stub}}