Saul Rae (1914-1999) was a Canadian diplomat during the Pearsonian era of Canadian foreign policy. 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The Right Honourable Lester Bowles Mike Pearson (April 23, 1897 - December 27, 1972) was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963, to April 20, 1968, and also a 1957 Nobel Laureate. ...

Rae's father was a gambler who abandoned his wife and five children when they were still young. His mother, Nell, made ends meet by putting the children on the vaudeville circuit as the "Five Raes of Sunshine". The family's sucess in the entertainment business provided enough financial support to fund Rae's education at the University of Toronto after he graduated from Toronto's Jarvis Collegiate Institute in 1931. Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada and one of the most important scholarly publishers in North America. ... }|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Official Flag]]|Coat Image=[[Image:{{{Coat Image}}}|135px|City of Toronto, Ontario Coat of Arms]]}} {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Diversity Our Strength {{Canadian City/Location Image is:{{{Location Image Type}}}|[[Image:{{{Location Image}}}|thumbnail|250px|City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Location. ... Jarvis Collegiate Institute Jarvis Collegiate Institute is a high school in Toronto, Canada. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Rae went on to earn a doctorate from Princeton University and was a pioneereing public opinion researcher co-authoring with George Gallup the 1940 book The Pulse of Democracy: Public Opinion and How It Works. Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... George Horace Gallup (November 18, 1901 - July 26, 1984), American statistician, invented the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He joined the Department of External Affairs and would spend four decades with the civil service as a career diplomat. Rae was one of the first Canadian diplomats to serve in Paris after its liberation in 1944. The Department of Foreign Affairs, also referred to as Foreign Affairs Canada, is the department of the government of Canada with responsibility for foreign policy and diplomacy. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Liberation of Paris in World War II took place in late August 1944 after the battle of Normandy. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1955, he worked on the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam as deputy to the Canadian Commissioner, Sherwood Lett. The role of the commission was to supervise the peace settlement at the end of the First Indochina War. He later served as Canadian Ambassador to France and was, from 1972 to 1976, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The First Indochina War (also called the French Indochina War) was fought in Southeast Asia from 1946 through 1954 between the nation of France and the resistance movement led by Ho Chi Minh, called the Viet Minh. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ...

Saul Rae's son, Bob Rae, was leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party and Premier of Ontario while another son John Rae was a senior advisor to Jean Chretien and is an executive with Power Corporation. The Honourable Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC , OC , O.Ont , QC , LL.B , LL.D (born August 2, 1948 in Ottawa, Ontario) was the 21st premier of Ontario, and the first to represent the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) in that role. ... The Ontario New Democratic Party (formerly known as the Ontario Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) is a social democratic political party in Ontario, Canada. ... Dalton McGuinty The Premier of Ontario is the first minister for the Canadian province of Ontario. ... The Right Honourable Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, PC (born January 11, 1934, Shawinigan, Quebec) was the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada, serving from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003. ... Power Corporation is a major Canadian company with interests in a number of industries, such as media, pulp and paper, and finance. ...