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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]
Paul Desmarais Jr. OC OQ 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. Paul Desmarais Jr. was born in Sudbury, Ontario. He was raised Roman Catholic. [1] .
Aug 8, 2023 · His sons, Paul Desmarais Jr. and Andre Desmarais, ran the company as co-CEOs for almost 25 years and pulled off a series of major deals of their own, while keeping a close grip on a control of the firm — via a special class of shares — and cultivating a royal mystique, rarely speaking in public.
Jan 25, 2015 · The National Post reports on the death of Paul Desmarais, the founder of Power Corporation and the owner of a 77 square kilometre family estate in Charlevoix. The article describes the history, the features and the guests of his Palladian villa and golf course.
Oct 9, 2013 · Paul Desmarais, one of Canada's most powerful businessmen and a self-made billionaire who befriended prime ministers and presidents, has died. Desmarais, who transformed an ailing family-owned...
Oct 10, 2013 · Paul Desmarais, who transformed a bankrupt bus line in a Canadian mining center into an international conglomerate with $527 billion in assets and, in the process, became one of his country’s...
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Jul 7, 2010 · Paul Desmarais was one of the 10 richest people in Canada and considered to be one of the country's most powerful men. He owned a 75-square-kilometre estate in Sagard, Québec, a French Canadian hamlet of 260 people located in the Charlevoix region. In 2005, Desmarais built the people of Sagard a yellow, wooden Roman Catholic church.
