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February 3 Vancouver Jean Lupien […]
When
1967-02-03
Description
February 3 Vancouver Jean Lupien, vice-president of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation and deputy commissioner-general of Expo '67, was arrested on a charge of attempted gross indecency when he was found at a local hotel in bed with a female impersonator. Lupien's defence was that he believed his companion was a woman. He was found guilty on June 27, 1967 and fined $750 (the other man, Serge Boisvert, was fined $100), but the ruling was reversed by the British Columbia Court of Appeal. The case eventually went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, which reversed the ruling of the B.C. Court of Appeal and found Lupien guilty on November 17,1969.
