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"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." ~ Michael J. Fox So happy to have created these beautiful images for The Desmarais Family. It was...
- Réal Plourde – $1.5 Billion
- Guy Laliberté – $1.6 Billion
- Sharon Azrieli – $1.6 Billion
- Francesco Saputo – $1.7 Billion
- Philip Fayer – $1.7 Billion
- Stephen Jarislowsky – $2 Billion
- Richard Fortin – $2.1 Billion
- Pierre Karl Péladeau – $2.4 Billion
- Robert Miller – $2.4 Billion
- Charles Bronfman – $3.4 Billion
Réal Plourde is one of the four men behind Alimentation Couche-Tard, founded in 1980. The chain is known as the Canadian convenience store giant and owns the Circle K chain. Today, Plourde remains on the company’s board of directors. With thousands of stores, Couche-Tard has annual sales of $63 billion. Headquartered in Laval, the company sells con...
He is a space tourist, a street musician and a very rich man. There is no such thing as the average billionaire, but among them, Guy Laliberté certainly stands out. He is the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, an entertainment giant with an international footprint that, before its bankruptcy, was worth more than a billion dollars. The idea for Cirque ...
Daughter of a billionaire real estate tycoon and opera singer, Sharon Azrieli is worth C$1.6 billion (US$1.2 billion) according to Forbes. The origins of Sharon Azrieli’s fortune date back to when her father, David Azrieli, fled Poland at the start of World War II and ended up in Montreal in the early 1950s. Despite the hustle and bustle of his ear...
Francesco Saputo is the son of Giuseppe Saputo and holds an interest in his family’s Canadian dairy company. His father founded the company in 1954 with $500 and a bicycle for deliveries after immigrating from Italy. His nephew, Lino Jr, the son of Emanuele (Lino) Saputo, is the current president of the company. Forbes estimates Francesco Saputo’s ...
Philip Fayer belongs to the class of billionaire dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Philip Fayer was a student at Concordia University when he founded a payment processing company in 2003 with the help of his co-founder Lester Hernandes. Philip Fayer never finished his studies at Concordia, as his company, now known as Nuvei, quickly bec...
Immigrants play a major role in the list of Quebec’s richest people. Born in Berlin, Stephen Jarislowsky left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands and then France before immigrating to the United States in the 1940s. Once in the United States, he earned an MBA from Harvard University. Jarislowsky also served in the U.S. Army before moving to Montreal t...
If you’ve ever seen a red owl winking at you during one of your late-night convenience store stops, then you know how billionaire Richard Fortin made his fortune. Fortin is one of the co-founders of the Couche-Tard convenience store chain, better known as Circle K outside Quebec. According to Forbes, Richard Fortin is worth C$2.1 billion (US$1.6 bi...
Pierre Karl Péladeau, a former leader of the Parti Québécois, is more of a businessman than a politician. Now head of Quebecor, a major player in the Canadian media and telecommunications industry, Pierre Karl Péladeau is impossible to ignore in Quebec, where most of the company’s assets are concentrated. Pierre-Karl Péladeau owes his fortune to hi...
Robert Miller is the founder of Future Electronics, one of the world’s top four electronic component suppliers. Robert Miller founded his company in 1968 and grew it into the billion dollar company it is today. It was in the world of electronics that our billionaire made his fortune. In 1968, he launched his company Future Electronics and, eight ye...
Although he no longer lives in Quebec, Charles Bronfman was born there. He inherited the world’s largest distiller of alcohol, Seagram. In 2000, he and his nephew decided to sell the family business to Vivendi in a deal valued at $30 billion. According to Forbes, Charles Bronfman’s net worth is C$3.4 billion (US$2.5 billion). Bronfman also founded ...
Dec 14, 2019 · La famille Desmarais a toujours été d’une discrétion légendaire. Les frères Paul, jr et André n’ont pas dérogé d’un iota à cette règle durant leurs 23 ans à la tête du conglomérat.
Dec 13, 2019 · Pour la première fois depuis 1968, la famille Desmarais ne sera pas aux commandes de Power Corporation. Après des années de rendements décevants, André Desmarais et Paul Desmarais Jr...
Dec 1, 2017 · He also assiduously groomed his sons, Paul Desmarais Jr., who is 63, and André Desmarais, 61, to take over from him as co-CEOs of Power in 1996.
Dec 13, 2019 · Montreal’s Desmarais family is collapsing the complicated and costly dual holding company structure behind its fleet of insurance, money management and financial services operating companies as the two sons of Power Corp.’s founder step back after more than 20 years at the helm.
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Paul Desmarais Sr. PC CC OQ (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. [1]
