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Ouimet
Ouimet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988), Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) *David Ouimet, American musician and artist *Francis Ouimet (1893–1967), American amateur golfer *François Ouimet (born 1959), Canadian politician *Gédéon Ouimet (1823–1905), French Canadian politician *Jean Ouimet (born 1954), Québécois politician and the president of Naviga-Cité, a multimedia company *Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (1848–1916), Canadian politician from Quenec *Léo-Ernest Ouimet (1877–1972), Canadian film pioneer *Matt Ouimet, American chief executive See also *Ouimet Canyon Ouimet Canyon is a large gorge in the municipality of Dorion, Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, about northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. The gorge is deep, wide and long, protected as part of Ouimet Canyon Provincial Pa ..., a gorge in northern Ontario, Canada * Ouimette, a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ouimet
Francis DeSales Ouimet () (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States. He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974. Early life Ouimet was born to Mary Ellen Burke and Arthur Ouimet in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston. His father was a French-Canadian immigrant, and his mother was originally from Ireland. When Francis was four years old, his family purchased a house on Lee Street across from Clyde Street in Brookline, directly across from the 17th hole of The Country Club. The Ouimet family grew up relatively poor and were near the bottom of the economic ladder, which was hardly the position of any American golfer at the time. As far as the general public was concerned, amateur golf was reserved for the wealthy, while pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léo-Ernest Ouimet
Léo-Ernest Ouimet (March 16, 1877 - March 2, 1972) was a Canadian film pioneer. He was a theater operator, filmmaker, producer, and distributor. Early life Ouimet was born on March 16, 1877 in Laval, Quebec. He planned a career in electrical engineering but stumbled upon show business by chance in 1901, when Le Theatre National in Montreal asked him to rewire the theatre building. Not only did he do the job in just two days but he devised a creative lighting system that wowed audiences. Other theatres, such as the Le Cartier Theatre asked him to do the same in their theatres and he became an instant success. Le Theatre National asked Ouimet to come back to work for them as a lighting designer, and a legal loophole launched his movie career: by law, Le Theatre National was not allowed to operate in any closed venue on Sundays, so to get around this, performances took place at Sohmers Park on Sundays. From 1902 onwards, the theatre screened animations during intermissions and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph-Aldric Ouimet
Joseph-Aldric Ouimet, (baptised Aldric; May 20, 1848 – May 12, 1916) was a Canadian parliamentarian. Biography Ouimet was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in an 1873 by-election as Member of Parliament for Laval, Quebec. He was a Liberal-Conservative and supporter of the government of Sir John A. Macdonald. After being educated in a seminary, and a brief career as a journalist, Ouimet became a lawyer. He was first elected to the House of Commons at the age of 25. His advocacy of the rights of French Canadians was challenged by the Conservative government's attitude to Louis Riel. Following the First Riel Rebellion, Ouimet argued for Riel to be pardoned, and, in 1875, voted against a Conservative motion to expel Riel from the seat in the House of Commons to which he had been elected. With the beginning of the Second Riel Rebellion in 1885, Minister of Militia Adolphe Caron asked Ouimet to raise a regiment from Montreal to join in the suppression of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Ouimet
Matt Ouimet is executive chairman of Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, a publicly traded company that owns 12 amusement parks in the United States and Canada. Early life Born in 1958 in Cooperstown, New York and raised in Unadilla NY. His first job was working at a grave yard in Unadilla. He graduated from Unatego High School in 1976 and went off to earn a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Binghamton University. Career highlights He started work in 1980 at Price Waterhouse and became a certified public accountant. In 1989, he left for Disney. Ouimet spent 17 years with The Walt Disney Company, including stints at Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney’s Wide World of Sports, and Vacation Club, president of Disney Cruise Line and president of the Disneyland Resort. Also at Disney Development Co., he served as chief financial officer. He was senior vice president of finance and business development for Walt Disney World until August 1998 when he was transferred to Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ouimet
David Ouimet (born 1965) is an American artist, author, and musician. He was a band member of Cop Shoot Cop, Motherhead Bug, Firewater, and Sulfur but has since moved on to interests other than music. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, in a music oriented household. Having been introduced to synthesizers in his teenage years, he developed an interest in editing. He studied film at Rhode Island School of Design where he developed a friendship with his future bandmate Tod Ashley. In the early 1990s, Ouimet co-founded the noise rock group Cop Shoot Cop, playing sampler and keyboards. He left after their first album to form the legendary Gypsy Klezmer Punk outfit Motherhead Bug, as songwriter, vocalist and trombonist. He has also recorded and toured with Foetus and Swans. Ouimet's illustrations of creepy, bipedal, fez-capped insect creatures (usually wielding scimitars or smoking hookahs) appeared on Motherhead Bug's singles and album, and he has continued his career as an illu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouimet Canyon
Ouimet Canyon is a large gorge in the municipality of Dorion, Thunder Bay District in northwestern Ontario, Canada, about northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. The gorge is deep, wide and long, protected as part of Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. There is a walkway consisting of boardwalks and trails, which leads to viewing platforms overlooking the canyon. Visitors to the canyon should remain on the marked trails for their own safety. Also in the Ouimet Canyon area, there are rare alpine flowers that are considered especially beautiful and arctic plants normally found one thousand kilometres further north. The canyon is shown in the IMAX film ''North of Superior''. The canyon was named after the former railway station of Ouimet, today an unincorporated place and railway point, located nearby on the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The station itself was named after the Canadian Minister of Public Works from 1892 to 1896, Joseph-Aldric Ouimet. Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park, a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Ouimet
François Ouimet (born August 20, 1959 in Montreal, Quebec) is a former Quebec politician and lawyer. He is the former Member of National Assembly for the riding of Marquette in Montreal. He represented the Quebec Liberal Party. Ouimet studied at the Université de Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in Canadian literature. He also received a bachelor's degree in civil law and common law at McGill University. In 1989 he was admitted to the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Bar and the Montreal Bar. He was a lawyer between 1990 and 1994 before jumping to provincial politics. He was a commissioner and president of the Catholic School Board of Montreal. Ouimet was first elected in Marquette in 1994 and re-elected in 1998, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2014. He served as opposition critic in primary and secondary education Secondary education or post-primary education covers two phases on the International Standard Classification of Education scale. Level 2 or lower secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gédéon Ouimet
Gédéon Ouimet (June 2, 1823 – April 23, 1905) was a French-Canadian politician. Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the second premier of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874. He resigned as party leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec in 1874 because of the Tanneries scandal which implicated the government of Quebec. He was appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec in 1895. He died in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec in 1905. The Quebec town of Grandmont changed its name to Saint-Gédéon in honour of Ouimet. A bridge on Highway 15 (Laurentian) was also named after him; the bridge crosses the Rivière des Mille Îles. It connects the municipality of Laval to the northern shore in what is now known as the town of Boisbriand. See also *Politics of Quebec *List of Quebec general elections *Timeline of Quebec history *List of presidents of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal This is a list of presiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Ouimet
Jean Ouimet (born September 3, 1954 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec) is a Canadian politician from Quebec and the president of Naviga-Cité, a multimedia company. He is the former leader of the Parti vert du Québec, a green party, and now an activist in the sovereigntist and social democratic Parti Québécois. Biography After attending CEGEP in sciences, Jean Ouimet studied mathematics at McGill University and the Université de Montréal before studying philosophy at the Université du Québec à Montréal. After five years of university, research in cognitive sciences and complexity followed. An activist in the Parti Québécois in the 1970s and in the Parti vert du Québec in the 1980s, he became the latter's leader in 1989, a role he would hold until the year 1993. He then left to become an adviser on ecology for Jacques Parizeau, then leader of the Parti Québécois and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec. In 2001, after the resignation of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alphonse Ouimet
Joseph-Alphonse Ouimet, (June 12, 1908 – December 20, 1988) was a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1958 to 1967 Born in Montreal, he received a degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in 1932. In 1932, he helped design, build and demonstrate the first Canadian television set. In 1934, he joined the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which became the CBC, and was responsible for setting up and running CBC's national radio service. He was involved in launching television broadcasting on the CBC. After retiring from the CBC, he became, in 1969, chairman of Telesat Canada, which built and launched many of Canada's communications satellites. He retired in 1980. In 1968, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He died in 1988 in the same city where he was born. External links Alphonse Ouimet's entry inThe Canadian Encyclopedia ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' (TCE; french: L'Encyclopédi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
