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Aug 8, 2023 · Inside a narrow gray stone building just off Montreal’s main business district, the family and their key lieutenants are reshaping Power Corp. of Canada, the publicly traded holding company that’s...
- 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 ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Inside a narrow gray stone building just off Montreal’s main business district, the family and their key lieutenants are reshaping Power Corp. of Canada, the publicly traded holding company that’s the primary source of a fortune worth at least US$4.5 billion.
- The Thomson Family. The Thomson family is not only the richest family in Canada but is also one of the richest families in the world. Patriarch David Thomson, or Baron Thomson of Fleet, inherited his British title and the Thomson Corporation from his father.
- The Weston Family. Weston's family holding company has the controlling interest in Loblaw. Weston also owns the iconic Ogilvy in Montreal and famous retail chains like Selfridges in the United Kingdom.
- The McCain Family. McCain Foods was founded in 1956 by brothers Wallace and Harrison McCain, with some help from their two older brothers, Robert and Andrew.
- The Coutu Family. Pharmacists have one of the highest paying jobs in the world, so it could have been a blow for a recent pharmacy graduate to be refused when he asked to become an associate of the pharmacy he had managed as a student.
- Emanuele (Lino) Saputo. Net Worth: $6.9 billion. Industry: Dairy. When I made a detailed list of the 50 wealthiest people in Canada, Emmanuel Saputo came 18th on the list.
- The Desmarais Family. Net Worth: $5.81 billion. Industry: Investment banking and acquisitions. The Desmarais Family is in charge of one of the wealthiest investment banking conglomerates in Canada.
- Alain Bouchard. Net Worth: $5.08 billion. Industry: Convenience stores. Alain Bouchard may not be a name that you recognize at first. However, Mr. Bouchard’s story is one of the most inspiring stories on this list and proves that anybody can rise to billionaire status with hard work and financial intelligence.
- Jean Coutu. Net Worth: $3.39 billion. Industry: Pharmacies and convenience stores. Jean Coutu has a similar store to Bouchard’s. Jean started off as a pharmacist working in a small Quebec pharmacy.
Today, the company Mr. Desmarais took over and grew into a media and financial services titan, Power Corp., is run by his two sons and is worth $11.7-billion. The companies controlled through Power are worth tens of billions more and Mr. Desmarais’ personal wealth is estimated at $4.5-billion.
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Mar 10, 2006 · The head of the Quebec billionaires club is Power Corporation president Paul Desmarais who came in 174th with a net worth of $3.8 billion US.
