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Desmarais
Desmarais is a French surname, associated especially but not exclusively with a powerful business and political family in Canada and United States. Notable people with the surname include: * André Desmarais (born 1956), Canadian businessman * Charles Desmarais, president of the San Francisco Art Institute * France Chrétien Desmarais, Canadian lawyer and businesswoman, daughter of Jean Chrétien and wife of André Desmarais * François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (1632–1713), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet * Hélène Desmarais (born 1955), Canadian businesswoman, spouse of Paul Desmarais Jr. * James Desmarais (born 1979), Canadian professional ice hockey player * Jean Noël Desmarais (1924–1995), Canadian physician, radiologist, and politician and brother of Louis Desmarais * Lorraine Desmarais (born 1956), Canadian jazz pianist and composer * Louis Desmarais (born 1923), member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1979-1984 *Louis-Élie Desmarais, part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Desmarais
Paul Desmarais Sr. (January 4, 1927 – October 8, 2013) was a Canadian financier and philanthropist, based in Montreal. With an estimated family net worth of US$4.5 billion (as of March 2012), Desmarais was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the fourth wealthiest person in Canada and 235th in the world in 2013. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Power Corporation of Canada until 1996 when he passed the reins of management of Power Corporation to his sons, Paul Jr. and André. He then continued to serve as a director and as chairman of the executive committee of the board, and remained the controlling shareholder. Power Corporation of Canada is a diversified international management and holding company with interests in companies in the financial services, asset management, sustainable and renewable energy, and other business sectors. Desmarais was highly regarded for his standard of integrity and his commitment to a united and prosperous Canada. Personal life Desmarais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Desmarais Jr
Paul Desmarais Jr. (born July 3, 1954) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He has been the chairman and co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada since 1996. Early life and education Desmarais was born in Sudbury, Ontario. He was raised Roman Catholic. He is the eldest son of billionaire Paul Desmarais Sr. and Jacqueline Desmarais. He was educated at Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario. He also attended McGill University Afterwards, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree at INSEAD. Career Paul Desmarais Jr. began his career with S.G. Warburg & Co. in London, England, and with Standard Brands Incorporated in New York. He then joined Power Corporation of Canada in 1981 and assumed the position of Vice-President the following year. In 1984, he led the creation of Power Financial Corporation, where he served as Vice-President from 1984 to 1986, as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1986 to 1989, as Executive Vice Chairman from 1989 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Desmarais
André Desmarais (born October 26, 1956) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. Early life He is the youngest son of Paul Desmarais Sr. and Jacqueline Desmarais. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he attended Lakefield College School in Ontario for two years, then Selwyn House School. Desmarais is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal (BComm 78, LLD 07). Career André Desmarais is currently deputy chairman of the company his father took control of in 1968, Power Corporation, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is also deputy chairman of Power Financial. Power Corporation is an international management and holding company that focuses on financial services in North America, Europe and Asia. Its core holdings are leading insurance, retirement, wealth management and investment businesses, including a portfolio of alternative asset investment platforms. Through its European-based affiliate, the Pargesa group, it also has significant holdings in a portfolio of global compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Desmarais
Hélène Desmarais (born in 1965) is a Canadian businesswoman and is a member of a number of boards and committees in the public and private sectors, including president of the board of directors of HEC Montréal. Biography Desmarais is a graduate of business administration from HEC Montréal. She also studied at Sciences Po in Paris, studied art history at Christie's in London and history of architecture at the New York School of Design. Desmarais has contributed to developing technology companies since 1996 as the founder, chair of the board and chief executive officer of the Montréal Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEIM), the first technology incubator and consulting service of its kind. Desmarais chaired a provincial committee to study the healthcare industry (1997), was made a member of the board of HEC Montréal in 1999 and became its chair in 2003. Desmarais also chairs the Université de Montréal's Faculty of Medicine Advisory Committee (from 2006), and sits o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Chrétien Desmarais
France Chrétien Desmarais, (born July 5, 1958) is a Canadian lawyer and businesswoman. She is the daughter of Jean Chrétien, 20th Prime Minister of Canada. Chrétien Desmarais is married to André Desmarais, president of the Montreal-based Power Corporation of Canada, and son of Paul Desmarais, a wealthy businessman. They have four children. One daughter, Jacqueline-Ariadne Desmarais, (b. 23 January 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), married 7 September 2013 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Prince ''Hadrien Étienne Georges André Aldo'' de Croÿ-Rœulx (b. 9 September 1983, Uccle, Brussels, Belgium). The direct descendant of Anne Emmanuel de Croÿ, the 8th Duke of Croÿ of the Solre. Chrétien Desmarais and her husband donated money to build one of the tallest buildings on the University of Ottawa Campus. She was chairman of the board of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation and a graduate of the University of Ottawa. She is also currently chair of the Canadian Olympic Found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorraine Desmarais
Lorraine Desmarais C.M. (born August 15, 1956) is a French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in Montreal, she earned a Bachelor of Music (1977) and Master of Music (1979) in classical piano at Université de Sherbrooke. She studied with Armas Maiste at McGill University in 1978 and 1979, and later took lessons from Kenny Barron in New York. She has also been influenced by Chick Corea and Oscar Peterson. Career Desmarais has recorded ten albums as a solo performer and musical director, including several with well-known artists such as Michel Cusson and Michel Donato (''Vision''), Tiger Okoshi (''Lorraine Desmarais''), Don Alias (''Andiamo''), André Moisan, Jean Gaudreault and Ted Baskin from the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Michel Bettez from the Orchestre Métropolitain (''Bleu Silence''), in addition to her long-standing team of Frédéric Alarie (double bass) and Camil Bélisle (drums). She has composed a number of pieces for herself an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odilon Desmarais
Odilon Desmarais, (February 27, 1854 – May 18, 1904) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec. He represented Saint-Hyacinthe in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1890 to 1892 and St. James in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1901 as a Liberal. He was born in Joliette, Canada East, the son of Jean-Baptiste Desmarais and Émérentienne Beauchamps, and was educated at the Collège de Joliette and McGill University. Desmarais articled in law with Alexandre Lacoste, was called to the Quebec bar in 1876 and practised in Saint-Hyacinthe with Honoré Mercier and in Montreal. Desmarais was also crown prosecutor for Montreal district. In 1877, he married Marie-Louise-Herminie Gélinas. Desmarais contributed to the newspapers ''L'Industrie de Trois-Rivières'' and ''Le National'' of Montreal. He was also editor and president of the ''L'Union'' printing company. Desmarais served on the municipal council for Saint-Hyacinthe from 1888 to 1890, when h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Desmarais
Charles Desmarais (born April 21, 1949) is the Art Critic for the ''San Francisco Chronicle''. A native of the Bronx, Desmarais earned a bachelor's and master's degree from the State University of New York, Buffalo, and was a 1983 participant in the Museum Management Institute (later the Getty Leadership Institute program of the Getty Foundation). In the 1980s, Desmarais directed the California Museum of Photography at the University of California, Riverside. He was director of the Laguna Art Museum, in Laguna Beach, California from 1988 to 1994. He then served as director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati from 1995 until January 2004. From 2005 to 2011, he was deputy director for art at the Brooklyn Museum, where he oversaw ten curatorial departments, as well as the museum’s education, exhibitions, conservation and library activities. In 2011 he was appointed president of the San Francisco Art Institute, a position he left in October 2015. Since 1985, he has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Élie Desmarais
L.E. Desmarais et Cie, known in English as L.E. Desmarais & Company, was a photo studio active in Montreal, Quebec during the 19th century. The company was run by Louis-Élie and Ovila Desmarais. From 1864 to 1868, the company operated a studio at 17 boulevard Saint Laurent in Montreal. Photographs by the Desmarais' are included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( en, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is situated in Battlefield Park and is a complex consisting of four bui .... References Companies based in Montreal {{Canada-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ovila Desmarais
L.E. Desmarais et Cie, known in English as L.E. Desmarais & Company, was a photo studio active in Montreal, Quebec during the 19th century. The company was run by Louis-Élie and Ovila Desmarais. From 1864 to 1868, the company operated a studio at 17 boulevard Saint Laurent in Montreal. Photographs by the Desmarais' are included in the collection of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( en, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is situated in Battlefield Park and is a complex consisting of four bui .... References Companies based in Montreal {{Canada-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Noël Desmarais
Jean Noël Desmarais (April 11, 1924 – July 25, 1995) was a Canadian physician, radiologist, and politician. Born in Sudbury, Ontario, the brother of Louis Desmarais and Paul Desmarais, he was not involved in politics before being appointed to the Senate of Canada, when he represented the senatorial division of Sudbury, Ontario in 1993. The Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, designed by the architect Moshe Safdie Moshe Safdie ( he, משה ספדיה; born July 14, 1938) is an architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author, with Israeli, Canadian, and American citizenship. He is known for incorporating principles of socially responsible desi ..., in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is named in his father's honour. A cigarette smoker, he died of cancer in 1995. References * * 1924 births 1995 deaths Canadian senators from Ontario Politicians from Greater Sudbury Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators Franco-Ontarian people {{Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Desmarais
Louis R. Desmarais (16 February 1923 – 25 March 2017) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a Chartered Accountant by career. In 1968, he became president of Les Entreprises de Transport Provincial limitée, and he was president of Canada Steampship Line, whose head manager in Quebec City was André Poliquin. He represented the riding of Dollard since his victory there in the 1979 federal election and his re-election in 1980. Desmarais was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Gerry Weiner of the Progressive Conservative Party. He served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments. His brother Jean Noël Desmarais was a physician and senator, and his brother Paul Desmarais Paul Desmarais Sr. (January 4, 1927 – October 8, 2013) was a Canadian financier and philanthropist, based in Montreal. With an estimated family net worth of US$4.5 billion (as of March 2012), Desmarais was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the fou ... was a billionai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
