Louis Bloomfield was born August 8,1906 Westmount, Quebec near Montreal, a city in which his Jewish family had roots since the early nineteenth century.
23 Facts About Louis Bloomfield
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Louis Bloomfield had a brother, Bernard, and three sisters, Dorothy, Florence, and Myrtle.
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Louis Bloomfield earned a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1927 and a Master of Laws from the University of Montreal in 1930.
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Louis Bloomfield received a Doctor of Laws from St Francis Xavier University in 1964 and a Doctor of Civil Law from St Thomas University in 1973.
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Louis Bloomfield was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1930 and practised international law with Phillips, Louis Bloomfield, Vineberg, and Goodman from 1930 to 1970.
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Louis Bloomfield assisted King Carol II of Romania in his attempt to gain entry into Canada after World War II, and was an executor of the Lady Davis estate.
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Louis Bloomfield was appointed a King's Counsel in 1948 and was elected to serve on the Mixed Court of Tangier within the international zone of Tangier in 1949.
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In 1952, Bloomfield co-founded the Canadian branch of the International Law Association with Maxwell Cohen, Gerald F FitzGerald, and Nicolas Mateesco-Matte.
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Louis Bloomfield served as that organization's president from 1964 to 1978, and was an honorary president from 1974 until his death in 1984.
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Louis Bloomfield was the author of four books: The British Honduras-Guatemala Dispute ; Egypt, Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba in International Law ; Grundung und Aufbau kanadischer Aktiengesellschaften ; and La Convention de Varsovie dans une Optique Canadienne.
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Louis Bloomfield served in World War II with the Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and retired with the rank of major in 1946.
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Louis Bloomfield was named as a major shareholder in the Swiss company Permindex, a company alleged by advocates of some John F Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories to be a front organization for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Louis Bloomfield was active in public service and described as "a pillar of a number of Montreal charities".
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Louis Bloomfield was president of the Quebec Council of St John Ambulance, life governor for Montreal Children's Hospital and the Hopital Ste Jeanne d'Arc, and vice-president and director of the Reddy Memorial Hospital in Westmount for fifty years.
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Louis Bloomfield served as a member of the Board of Governors of the America Israel Cultural Foundation, the Hebrew University, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
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Louis Bloomfield was an Honorary Consul General for the Republic of Liberia from 1962 until his death.
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Louis Bloomfield was the Montreal Chairman of the Israel Histadrut Campaign.
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Lady Davis had enlisted the services of Louis Bloomfield to negotiate the final settlement of her divorce trust with her ex-husband's estate.
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Louis Bloomfield received the Knight of Justice of St John, the Canadian Centennial Medal, and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
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Louis Bloomfield received honorary degrees from the Hebrew University in 1973 and Bar-Ilan University in July 1984, and was recognized as an honorary citizen in Tel Aviv and Winnipeg.
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On July 19,1984, Louis Bloomfield died of a heart attack while in Jerusalem to receive the honorary degree from Bar-Ilan University.
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Proponents of some John F Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories have alleged the Bloomfield was linked to the shooting through the Office of Strategic Services, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Permindex.
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Louis Bloomfield's donation came with the condition that the documents would not be made public until twenty years after his death.