1. Maurice Baril was born in Saint-Albert, Quebec, in 1943 and studied at the University of Ottawa from 1961 to 1964, becoming an officer in the Canadian Army in 1963.
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Maurice Baril commanded land forces in Cyprus and Lahr, Germany, served at Department of National Defence headquarters in Ottawa, Ecole Speciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in Paris and as commander of the Combat Training Centre at CFB Gagetown.
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Maurice Baril was appointed head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations in June 1992, where he was military advisor to then under-secretary for peacekeeping operations Kofi Annan.
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Maurice Baril was in charge of the Military Division at DPKO during the Rwandan genocide where his countryman General Romeo Dallaire was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
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Maurice Baril went on to be chief of Land Force Quebec Area in Montreal in July 1995 and chief of the Land Staff in September 1996.
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In September 1997, Maurice Baril was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff by Governor General Romeo LeBlanc, on the advice of his prime minister, Jean Chretien.
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Maurice Baril, along with American general Henry Shelton, was a signatory to the joint Canadian-American military exercise Amalgam Virgo in June 2001.
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Maurice Baril retired from the Canadian Forces on July 18,2001.
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In 2002, Maurice Baril led the Canadian board of inquiry into the friendly fire Tarnak Farm incident on April 17,2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Maurice Baril was appointed chairman of the board of directors for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority in 2005, but resigned in January 2007.