Camille A. Dagenais, (November 12, 1920 – September 18, 2016) was a Canadian

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and former President of the SNC Group (now called

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). Dagenais was born in Montreal in 1920. In 1972 he was made an Officer of the

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and was promoted to Companion in 1982. In 1979 he received an honorary doctorate from

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. In 2010 he was made an Officer of the

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. He died at the age of 95 in 2016.Camille Dagenais 1920-2016

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