Frederick P. Varcoe

Frederick Percy Varcoe, CMG, QC (1889 – 15 October 1965) was a Canadian civil servant and lawyer.

Varcoe was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1889 and was educated at Harbord Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, where he took a BA in 1911.

He was appointed to the Department of Finance in 1912, then studied law as Osgoode Hall, and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1915.

[1][2] He joined the Department of Justice in 1917, becoming Deputy Minister in 1941 in succession to W. Stuart Edwards.

He was created a Dominion King's Counsel in 1941.