The Honorable Joseph Honoré Gerald Fotoe ( Fr. Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux ; October 22, 1900 , St. Iacent - September 14, 1980 ) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1970 to 1973 . Subsequently, from 1973 to 1979 . He was the rector of the University of Ottawa .
His name is the building of the Law School of the University of Ottawa .
Born in St. Iacent in the family of Omer Fotot and Eva Mercier, in 1925 he graduated from the University of Montreal with a bachelor of law . In the same year he became a barrister , settled in Montreal , where he worked with his grandfather Honore Mercier at the joint law firm Mercier & Fauteux. In 1939 he became the chief prosecutor of the province of Quebec.