In 1951, he was noted for the prescient hiring of John Cobb Cooper to head up the new department he created, McGill's Institute of Air Space Law.

Considered an expert in litigation, he became a senior partner in his father's law firm and was made a King's Counsel in 1942.

He was selected by the government to be the special federal prosecutor at the trial of Fred Rose.

They were the parents of one son, but divorced 14 November 1949, by a private act of Parliament.

[5] Privately, he was an amateur radio enthusiast who enjoyed tennis and skiing and had in his early years been a member of the Montreal Hunt.