Joseph-Charles-Émile Trudeau
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Joseph Charles-Émile Trudeau (July 5, 1887 – April 10, 1935) was a successful French Canadian entrepreneur, father of Pierre Trudeau (15th Prime Minister of Canada) and grandfather of Justin Trudeau, currently Prime Minister-designate of Canada.
Life and career
Charles-Émile Trudeau was born in Saint-Michel-de-Napierville, Quebec, the son of Marie-Malvina Cardinal (1849–1931) and Joseph-Louis Trudeau (1848–1919),[1] a Quebec farmer. He married Grace Elliott, the daughter of a prominent entrepreneur, Phillip-Armstrong Elliott (1859–1936), and his wife Sarah-Rebecca Sauve (1857–1899), and had three children. Charles-Émile Trudeau was considered gregarious, boisterous and extravagant.
Trudeau, a lawyer by training, accumulated a fortune by building a number of gas stations around the Montreal area. Among his investments, Trudeau had interests in mining companies and was a shareholder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Royals baseball team.[2] He also had a financial interest in Montreal's Belmont Park.[3]
He died in 1935 in Orlando, Florida. Due to Trudeau's business, Pierre Trudeau himself inherited wealth. Trudeau served as an inspiration to the Prime Minister. As Jim Coutts, Pierre Trudeau's aide, recalled, Trudeau "talked, at times, of his father, whom he greatly admired, but who was too busy to understand his son's interests or spend much time with him."[4]
References
- ↑ Memoirs, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1993
- ↑ Trudeaumania: A Swinger for Prime Minister | CBC Archives at archives.cbc.ca
- ↑ The General Star at www.jdgravenor.com
- ↑ Jim Coutts, "Trudeau in Power: A View from Inside the Prime Minister's Office," in Trudeau's Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, eds. Andrew Cohen and JL Granatstein, Vintage Canada, 1999, page 146.
