Английская Википедия:André Chagnon
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André Chagnon Шаблон:Post-nominals (March 17, 1928 – October 8, 2022) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He was noted for being the founder of telecommunications company Vidéotron.
Early life
Chagnon was born in the Ahuntsic neighbourhood of Montreal on March 17, 1928.[1][2] His father worked as an electrician and entrepreneur.[3] Chagnon was raised near Gouin Boulevard during the Great Depression,[4] and recounted how his family survived on "a lot of bread and molasses".[5] He attended the Шаблон:Interlanguage link from 1945 to 1949.[6]
Career
Chagnon became an electrician like his father and began his work career by laying underground cables for the City of Montreal.[2][3] He eventually started his own contracting company – E. R. Chagnon et Fils[1] – in 1957, when he was 29.[3] He later sold it to his employees. In 1964, he founded the cable company Le Groupe Vidéotron. Under his leadership, the company adopted an acquisition-based growth strategy,[3] starting with the purchase of Câblevision Nationale in 1980. It went on to acquire Télé-Métropole six years later. This was ultimately sold when the company bought CF Cable in 1997.[1] Vidéotron was also listed on the Montreal Exchange in 1985,[1] and established a branch in London in 1988, before branching into the United States five years later.[3] These moves led to Vidéotron becoming Canada's third-largest telecommunications company and the largest in Quebec.[1][3]
Chagnon was one of the four industrial leaders invited by the Government of Canada to take part in the 1995 G-7 Ministerial Conference on the Information Society, held in Brussels. He was also named to the Information Highway Advisory Council that same year.[3] Retiring in 2000, Chagnon set up the Шаблон:Interlanguage link multi, an organization working to prevent poverty and illness in families, which has $1.4 billion in assets and was one of the largest foundations in Canada.[3][5] He had a net worth of $474 million CDN in 2006.[7]
Personal life
Chagnon was married to Lucie Dolan-Chagnon for 65 years until her death in August 2014.[3][8] Together, they had five children. One of them, Christian, predeceased Chagnon.[8] Chagnon became a vegetarian around the 1990s.[5]
Chagnon died on October 8, 2022, at age 94.[8][9]
Awards and honours
Chagnon was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in October 1992 and invested six months later in April of the following year.[3][10] He was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2002.[3][11] One year later, he was invested as an officer of the National Order of Quebec.[3][12] He was subsequently conferred the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award by Ernst & Young.[3] Chagnon was granted honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa (2004),[13] McGill University (2004),[14] Concordia University (2004),[15] HEC Montréal (2008),[3] and Université Laval.[16] He was made a commander of the Order of Montreal in its inaugural class of 2016.[16]
References
External links
- Fondation Lucie et André Chagnon
- Article at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
- Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 Lifetime Achievement award
- Concordia University Honorary Degree Citation, June 2004, Concordia University Records Management and Archives
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