Rodolphe Forget

Sir Joseph David Rodolphe Forget (December 10, 1861 – February 19, 1919) was an important Canadian business investor, stockbroker, and politician. He held national directorships and had major investments in energy companies as well as industrial concerns and railway companies in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Born in Terrebonne in what was then known as Canada East, Rodolphe Forget became one of the most influential businessmen of his era in Quebec. With wide-ranging business interests, in 1899 one of his companies built the Manoir Richelieu at La Malbaie, Quebec.

During the early 1900s, Rodolphe Forget with his uncle Louis-Joseph Forget and Forget family investments controlled the very important Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company. Rodolphe Forget served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Stock Exchange from 1907 to 1909.

Forget was elected as a Conservative to the 10th Canadian Parliament for the Charlevoix riding in 1904, serving for more than thirteen years.

Rodolphe Forget died in 1919 at the age of fifty-seven and was buried in the Roman Catholic Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges in Montreal.

References

* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=21707cca-53c0-45ee-bc24-f51541501b91&Language=E Forget record at the Parliament of Canada]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7373 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]