Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jean Victor Allard, CC, CBE, GOQ, DSO, ED, CD (12 June 1913 23 April 1996) was the first French-Canadian to become Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest position in the Canadian Forces, from 1966 1969. He was also the first to hold the accompanying rank of general.Allard was the only boy of seven children. His sisters were Anaïs, Judith, Thérèse, Marie, Irène and Madeleine. When he was seven years old, he and his sisters became orphans.He proposed to his future wife, Simone Piché, on the 11th of November, and was married on 7 January 1939.