Albert PEN

Albert PEN (March 1st 1931 - July 3rd 2003) is a French politician of the archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.

Born in Dartmouth, in Nova Scotia, he is teacher of profession, he was in the Seventies and Eighties one of the major political personalities of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. He illustrated himself during the " war of the morue" between France and Canada by some spectacular actions like an hunger strike with Ottawa and its arrest, with other elected officials of the archipelago, by the Canadian coastal Garde whereas they had embarked on fishing vessels saint-honed to go to fish in Canadian water in protest against the new fishing zones.

Mandates

Appointed of 1981 to 1986
Senator of 1968 to 1981 then of 1986 to 1995,
Mayor of Saint-Pierre of 1971 to 1998
Member of the Economic and Social Council of 1999 to 2003

Philately

A stamp was emitted with its effigy in 2006 (drawing Patrick Derible, engraving Pierre Albuisson)

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