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Jacques Francœur
Jacques Francœur (1925 – July 24, 2005) was a French-Canadian businessman and journalist. He is best known as the owner of the ''Unimédia'' group, making him one of Quebec's media moguls. He was the son of Louis Francœur. Biography He had a long career in publishing, which began at the age of 16 at the daily newspaper '' La Patrie''. He later worked for the '' Montreal Daily Star'' and '' The Gazette''. A few years later, he purchased ''Le Guide du Nord'', which marked the beginning of one of the most important media companies in French Canada. He founded the '' Dimanche-Matin'' newspaper. Following that, he partnered with businessman Paul Desmarais for a number of years to establish the Trans-Canada newspaper group. Toward the end of the 1960s, he acquired the weekly newspapers ''Le Petit Journal'', '' Photo Journal'', and '' La Patrie'', which he closed in 1978. In 1973, he founded ''Unimédia'', which would become a publishing conglomerate with a workforce of 2,000 emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
