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Margaret Joan Trudeau (née Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian activist and the mother of Justin Trudeau, the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. [ 1 ] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971, three years after he became prime minister. They divorced in 1984, during his final ...
Nov 22, 2023 · Margaret met her future husband, Pierre Trudeau, while she was on a vacation with her family in Tahiti, French Polynesia. Margaret was then 18 years old, and Pierre was in his late 40s, and at that time Minister of Justice. Margaret was a young, free-spirited girl and in fact didn’t recognize Pierre, while he was captivated by her.
- Early Life and Family
- Marriage to Pierre Trudeau
- Media Attention
- Divorce and Deaths
- Mental Health Advocate
- We Charity Payments
- Author and Other Activities
Margaret Joan Sinclair was born on 10 September 1948, in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She was the fourth of five daughters (Heather, Janet, Rosalind preceded her; Betsy followed). Her mother, Kathleen (née Bernard), was the daughter of Thomas Bernard, a railway clerk. Margaret’s father, James Sinclair, was a Scottish-born Rhodes scholar who m...
On 4 March 1971, Pierre Trudeau flew west from Ottawa in what was announced as a short skiing vacation. It was actually for a wedding attended only by a handful of members of both families. Margaret Sinclair, 22, married Trudeau, 51, in a ceremony performed by Reverend John Swinkels, a Roman Catholic priest. (Margaret converted to Catholicism befor...
Margaret Trudeau was commonly described as beautiful and high-spirited in media accounts. The writer June Callwood once described her as “a perfectly preserved flower child.” ( See also Hippies in Canada.) In 1974, Margaret said in a television interview that she had been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment because of the “frightening” strains o...
Margaret returned to Ottawa in the early 1980s, living close to 24 Sussex so she could be more involved in raising her sons. She filed for divorce from Pierre in November 1983; it was finalized on 2 April 1984, one month after Pierre announced his retirement from politics. On 18 April 1984, Margaret married Ottawa real estatedeveloper Fried Kemper....
The dual loss of Michel and Pierre Trudeau sent Margaret into a mental breakdown. “I went into complete and utter madness,” she told the Globe and Mailin 2009. “I couldn’t leave my house to buy groceries.” Her marriage to Fried Kemper ended in divorce in 1999. In 2001, she sought treatment at the Royal Ottawa Hospital, where she finally received a ...
In 2020, it was revealed that Margaret Trudeau was one of several Trudeau family members to receive honoraria from the WE Charity (see Craig Kielburger). Margaret was paid more than $250,000 for speaking at 28 events. The payments became an issue after the federal government awarded a sole source contract to the charity. Prime Minister Justin Trude...
Margaret Trudeau wrote a titillating, first-person account of her marriage with Pierre Trudeau in Beyond Reason (1979). It was followed three years later by Consequences, in which she described her romantic relationships with such Hollywood stars as Ryan O’Neal and Jack Nicholson, as well as US senator Ted Kennedy. She followed the success of Chang...
Margaret Trudeau was born on 10 September 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Kings and Desperate Men (1981), L'ange gardien (1978) and Big City Comedy (1980). She was previously married to Fried Kemper and Pierre Trudeau.
- September 10, 1948
Mar 17, 2016 · She danced at Studio 54, hung out with the Rolling Stones, and cut a stylish path through the 1970s. Now Margaret Trudeau, Canada's unconventional former first lady—and whose son is the country ...
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Apr 27, 2019 · Margaret Trudeau, once in the limelight as a socialite and Canada's first lady, is now set to present her own life story in the one-person show Certain Woman of an Age. Kirsten Miccoli/Courtesy of ...
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Oct 8, 2010 · Margaret Trudeau is sitting in the living room of her Montreal apartment, chatting about the Prime Minister and marijuana. No, the former flower-child chatelaine of 24 Sussex isn’t time ...
