How old is ed broadbent

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Article published September 30, ; Last Edited March 04, The Canadian Encyclopedia , s. Thank you for your submission Our team will be reviewing your submission and get back to you with any further questions. Thanks for contributing to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Article by Garth Stevenson. His sister, who was in the Ottawa General delivering her fourth child, doubled as a matchmaker, setting up a blind date between her brother and the young nurse who was caring for her.

Munroe and Ms. Allen married on December 29, And that is how she met her second husband Ed Broadbent. The product of a working class family headed by an alcoholic father, Mr. Broadbent was always short of funds to finance his intellectual and educational aspirations. He went to the University of Toronto on a full scholarship and after graduating with stellar marks in , he taught high school for a year at O'Neill Collegiate-- a rival to Central Collegiate where he had attended high school.

One of his colleagues was Louis Munroe. Munroe told his wife about the new teacher "who wears these nice woollen ties and corduroy suits" and "enjoys having discussions," according to Judy Steed's biography, Ed Broadbent: The Pursuit of Power.

The Munroes invited him for dinner and, as Lucille recalled later, they "debated the existence of God. These were the years when Mr. Broadbent was studying for his M.

They married in , separated in and divorced two years later. Meanwhile, the Munroes had adopted a two-and-a half-year old little boy in , whom they named Paul after Lucille's older brother who had been killed in a skiing accident when she was About this time Mr.

Munroe was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Despite her new responsibilities, Ms. Munroe was still working part-time as a nurse, acting in amateur theatricals and supporting the Liberal party, as she had been doing since childhood.

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, both the Conservative and Liberal Parties had entered the debate about whether Canada should accept Bomarc surface-to-air missiles from the United States and equip them with nuclear warheads.

The issue became very heated during the election campaign, which the Liberals won largely because of Lester Pearson's pro nuclear stance. He may have persuaded the electorate, but he lost Ms. Munroe, who abandoned her long-time allegiance to the Liberals in favour of the New Democratic Party. Less than two years later, Lucille was a widow. Her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumour, underwent surgery and never regained consciousness. He died on Feb. Lucille was 29 and her son Paul was five.

After almost 10 years working as a nurse in hospitals and clinics in Ottawa and Oshawa, she took a summer course to learn how to teach French in English schools so she could be on the same daily schedule as her son--and have weekends and summers free. That fall, she moved to Ottawa, her home town, with her son, settled into a townhouse in Kanata and began teaching French in her son's school.

Broadbent, who had remained close to the Munroes since they had met six years earlier, tried to help her through her grief, which was compounded by the deaths of her father and mother at about the same time. Some observers think that Mr.

Broadbent may already have been in love with the young widow, but he was in the midst of the devastating breakdown of his own marriage. For her part, Lucille was too desolated by tragedy to respond to any romantic overtures. Broadbent did run for Parliament again, in , this time in Ottawa Centre. His campaign included a rap video, Ed's Back , originally made for a TV show that didn't air it.

That raised the ire of opponents who claimed it was a gift to him worth more than the allowable campaign gift value. Social Sharing.

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