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Mr. Justice Paul-Arthur Gendreau was born on August 19, 1939. He obtained a B.A. degree from Laval University, Quebec City, and graduated (LL.L.) in 1963 from the Faculty of Law of this University. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1964. As a Commonwealth scholar, he studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1964 to 1965.

Mr Justice Gendreau practised law in Rimouski from 1965 to 1980, first with his father (appointed to the Superior Court in 1967) and then a senior partner in the firm Gendreau Pelletier Gendreau Lavallée Langis & Ass. In 1974-1975, he acted as counsel for the Royal Commission of Inquiry on the Labour Relations in the Construction Industry (Commission Cliche). He served as Associate Deputy Minister of Justice for the Province of Québec (1980-1982). After his mandate to the Ministry of Justice, he practised law in Québec City as a partner with Langlois Drouin and later with Clarkson Tetrault (now McCarthy Tetrault).
Mr Justice Gendreau sat as a member of the board of la Commission des services juridiques. In 1979-1980, he was the President of le Barreau du Bas-St-Laurent and a member of the Executive Committee of the Quebec Bar.

Mr Justice Gendreau is co-author of a treatise on Injunction (l'Injonction) published in 1998. Since 2000, he has been Administrator for the Province of Quebec in accordance with article 67 of the Constitutional Act, 1867.

Mr. Justice Paul-Arthur Gendreau was appointed to the Court of Appeal on April 16, 1986 and was sworn in on May 6, 1986.