Michael Pitfield

P. Michael Pitfield
Senator for Ottawa-Vanier, Ontario
In office
December 22, 1982 – June 1, 2010
Appointed byPierre Trudeau
Personal details
Born
Peter Michael Pitfield

(1937-06-18)June 18, 1937
Montreal, Quebec
DiedOctober 19, 2017(2017-10-19) (aged 80)
Montreal, Quebec
Political partyIndependent
SpouseNancy Elizabeth Snow
RelationsSiblings: Robert Hartland Pitfield Sr (deceased, 2004)
Ward C. Pitfield Jr.
Children3

Peter Michael Pitfield PC OC CVO (June 18, 1937 – October 19, 2017) was a Canadian Senator and senior civil servant.

Pitfield was the youngest son of the Canadian financier Ward C. Pitfield and Grace MacDougall Pitfield, daughter of Canadian ice hockey player Hartland MacDougall. His brother, Ward C. Pitfield Jr., was Chairman of the family Investment Banking firm, Pitfield, MacKay, Ross, which later merged with Dominion Securities, now the investment arm of the Royal Bank of Canada. Another brother was stockbroker Robert Hartland Pitfield (d. 2004), father of Robert H. Pitfield Jr (married to former Toronto city councillor Jane Pitfield) His nephew, Ward Elcock is the former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former Deputy Minister at the Department of National Defence (Canada).