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Order Of Montreal
The Order of Montreal () is a Order (distinction), municipal order awarded to residents of the city of Montreal, in the province of Quebec, Canada, since 2016. The honour succeeds the former Great Montrealer, which was conferred from 1988 to 2015 by the . History As a legacy of Montréal's 375th anniversary, Ville de Montréal created an honorary order to recognize the talents and achievements of the men and women who have helped shape the city. The new honour was announced in December 2015 and on 17 May 2016 mayor Denis Coderre presented the inaugural honours. It was decided that they would be awarded on 17 May each year, which is the anniversary of the founding of Montreal. The Order of Montreal succeeded the , a special honour that was created in 1988 by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and terminated in 2015. All recipients of that honour were awarded the Order of Montreal in December 2016 with the rank of Commander. Description As a municipal order, it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Montreal
The mayor of Montreal is head of the executive branch of the Montreal City Council. The current mayor is Valérie Plante, who was elected into office on November 5, 2017, and sworn in on November 16. The office of the mayor administers all city services, public property, police and fire protection, most public agencies, and enforces all city and provincial laws within Montreal, Quebec. The mayor is directly elected by citizens, by a plurality (voting), plurality of votes, for a four-year term (unless a vacancy occurs). The mayor's office is located in Montreal City Hall. History of the office The first poll in the history of Montreal was held on the day the first charter of Montreal came into effect – June 3, 1833. On June 5, 1833 Montreal City Council, city council chose Jacques Viger (1787–1858), Jacques Viger as the first mayor of Montreal. The same day that Jacques Viger was elected mayor of Montreal, city council adopted a series of administrative by-laws, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Beaudoin
Laurent Robert Beaudoin (; born May 13, 1938) is a Canadian businessman from Quebec. From 1979 to 2003, he was the CEO of the transportation company Bombardier. Early life Beaudoin was born in Laurier Station, Quebec. In 1959, while studying accounting at the University of Sherbrooke, he married Claire Bombardier, daughter of Canadian businessman Joseph Armand Bombardier. Career Beaudoin began his career in 1961 in Sherbrooke, Quebec by founding a firm of chartered accountants, Beaudoin and Blais, soon followed by a second firm, Beaudoin, Morin, Dufresne & Associés. In 1963 he joined the family business, L’Auto-Neige Bombardier Limited, as comptroller. He was named president of the company in 1966, shortly after Bombardier's death. He became chairman and chief executive officer of Bombardier Inc. in 1979. Under his leadership, the company grew from a snowmobile manufacturer to the world's largest manufacturer of rail transportation equipment and to the world's third larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Carle
Gilles Carle, (July 31, 1928As fully funny, Carle had pleasure to always give himself one year less, and to let people think wrongly that he was born in 1929, "The Year of the Big World Crash": see on the Quebec French newspapers that many writers verified that, after his death, and corrected his year of birth for 1928 and his age for 81. – Also see oCinememorialthe translation of what her younger daughter, Valerie Duchesne-Carle, wrote on Twitter: "He was born in 1928 not in 1929. My father always missed this little oddity." – November 28, 2009) was a French Canadian director, screenwriter and painter. Gilles Carle, who was a key figure in the development of a commercial Quebec cinema, worked as a graphic artist and writer before he joined the National Film Board of Canada in 1960. His innovative debut feature, ''La Vie heureuse de Léopold Z.'', tracked the adventures of a snowplough operator during a madcap Christmas Eve. But after the NFB rejected several of his projects, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Caillé
André Caillé (born September 11, 1943) is a Canadian electricity company executive. André Caillé was the chairman of Hydro-Québec from September 2004 to November 2007 and the chairman of the World Energy Congress. From October 1996 until April 2005, he was president and chief executive officer of Hydro-Québec. From 1982 until 1996, he was an executive of Gaz Métropolitain, a distributor of natural gas. He is a chemist, and earned a doctorate in physical chemistry (1968) from the Université de Montréal. He has been chancellor of the Université de Montréal. He was president of the Mental Illness Foundation. Administrator and Senior strategic advisor for Junex since April 2008. President of the QOGAQuebec Oil and Gas Association created in April 2009. Political views Quebec's Deputy Minister of the Environment from 1978 to 1981. Caillé affirmed he voted Yes in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty, but stated he presently believes the ADQ's autonomist policy is mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Brott
Denis Brott , SMOM is a Canadian cellist, music teacher, conductor, and founder and artistic director of the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. Early life and education Brott was born in Montreal, into a family of professional musicians; he is the son of the violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte Brott (née Goetzel), and the younger brother of late conductor Boris Brott. His mother was born in Mannheim, Germany, a country she had left in 1939 because of political oppression. He studied cello with Walter Joachim at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal from 1959 to 1967, with Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School in New York from 1964 to 1968, with Janos Starker at the Indiana University in Bloomington from 1968 to 1971 and with Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, until 1975, acting as Piatigorsky's assistant for part of his four years there. Career As a young man Brott performed as a cellist and conductor, winnin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Brott
Alexander Brott, , born Joël Brod (March 14, 1915April 1, 2005),"Musician Alexander Brott dies" ''CBC News'', Apr 04, 2005 was a Canadian , , ist and music teacher. Early life and education Brott was born in , Quebec. He earned degrees from the |
Georges Brossard
Georges Brossard, (February 11, 1940 – June 26, 2019) was a Canadian entomologist and founder of the Montreal Insectarium. He died on June 26, 2019, at the age of 79. Biography An insect enthusiast from a very early age, Brossard held a career as a notary until the age of 38. He then started to travel, and on his travels studied the insects he came across with deep interest. In 1989, after having collected over 250,000 specimens, he solicited the then mayor of Montreal, Jean Doré, to open an insectarium. He and Pierre Bourque, then director of the Montreal Botanical Gardens, began a partnership to govern and operate the Montreal Insectarium. Brossard has founded four other insectariums across the globe, some of which are located as far as Shanghai and South Africa. Since the opening of the Montreal Insectarium, his collection, which he continued to amass through his travels, has grown to over 500,000 specimens. Brossard wrote and directed 20 episodes of '' Mémoires d'insecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bronfman
Charles Bronfman, (born June 27, 1931) is a Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist and is a member of the Canadian Jewish Bronfman family. With an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion in 2023, Bronfman was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the 1,217th wealthiest person in the world. Biography Bronfman was born into a Jewish family in Montreal. He is the son of Samuel Bronfman and Saidye Rosner Bronfman. He has two older sisters, the art patron Baroness Aileen "Minda" Bronfman de Gunzberg, and architecture expert and developer Phyllis Lambert. His older brother, Edgar Bronfman, Sr., was his fellow co-chair of Seagram. Edgar Bronfman Jr. is Edgar's son. He was educated at Selwyn House School in Montreal, Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and McGill University. Bronfman said he is Canadian in his heart but sought his dual citizenship in order to vote in the United States. Business career Bronfman held various positions in the family's liquor empire, Seagram, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Brind'Amour
Yvette Brind'Amour, (November 30, 1918 – April 4, 1991) was a Canadian actress. In 1949, she co-founded, with Mercedes Palomino, the Théâtre du Rideau Vert, Quebec's oldest French theatre, in Montreal where she was born. She was artistic director until her death. In 1967 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1982. In 1985 she was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 1987 she was awarded the Molson Prize. In 1969 she was awarded an honorary D.B.-A from University of Ottawa. She was married for much of her adult life to writer and filmmaker Paul Gury, until his death in 1974.Jean Marmier, "La carrière franco-canadienne de Loïc Le Gouriadec, homme de théâtre" in ''Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l'Ouest'', Vol. 85, No. 4 (1978). pp. 631-640. After her death in 1991, she was entombed at the Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery (, ) is a rural cemetery located in the borough of Côt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lise Bissonnette
Lise Bissonnette (born December 13, 1945) is a Canadian writer and journalist. Biography Born in Rouyn, Quebec, Bissonnette studied education science at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1970. She later pursued doctoral studies at the University of Strasbourg and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1974, she became a reporter for the daily newspaper ''Le Devoir''. She became the parliamentary correspondent in Quebec City, then in Ottawa, before taking on the position of editorialist and, finally, that of writer-in-chief in 1982. From 1986 to 1990, she worked as an independent journalist and consultant, and collaborated with many Quebec and Canadian media organizations. She writes a weekly article on Quebec affairs for the Canadian daily newspaper ''The Globe and Mail'', as well as monthly articles for the magazines ''L'actualité'' and '' Montreal Magazine''. In 1990, she returned to ''Le Devoir'', where she served as editor-in-chief until 1998. Bissonn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Bérard
André Bérard, (born August 13, 1940) is a Canadian businessman and former president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the National Bank of Canada. Personal life He was born in Bedford, Quebec. Career He joined the National Bank of Canada in 1958, becoming president and chief operating officer in 1986. In 1990, he was named president and chief executive officer. He stepped down as president and CEO in 2002 and was chairman of the board until 2004. From 1986 to 1989, he was chair of the executive council of the Canadian Bankers Association. He is currently a member or has been a member of the board of directors of the following companies: Bombardier Inc., BCE Inc., Noranda Inc., Saputo Inc., Falconbridge, Kruger Inc., Vasogen Inc. and the Groupe Canam Inc. In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his "remarkable demonstration of his leadership qualities". In 2000, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. He has receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Bensadoun
Albert "Aldo" Bensadoun (born 1939), is a Canadian-Moroccan businessman. He is the founder and executive chairman of Aldo, a retail shoe company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Bensadoun's family foundation donated $25 million to McGill University to help found the Bensadoun School of Retail Management. Early life Aldo Bensadoun () was born in Fez to a Moroccan Jewish family; his father was a shoe retailer in Fez, Morocco and France. Bensadoun moved to the United States for his post-secondary education. He attended Cornell University before relocating to Montreal and graduating from McGill University with a commerce degree in 1964. Career He worked at Yellow Shoes before founding the precursor to the Aldo Group in 1972 as a stand within the Le Château store in Montreal. As of July 2020, ''Forbes'' estimated his net worth at US$1.1 billion. Honours Bensadoun is a recipient of the Order of Canada. He is a recipient of the National Order of Quebec, and the Ordre de Montr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
