Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Margaret Sinclair Trudeau


Related Topics

In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
  Margaret Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is the former wife of the late Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
Sinclair did not recognize him and she in fact thought little of their encounter but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree "flower child", thirty years younger than himself, and began to pursue her.
Margaret resented her husband's constant work-related absences and was forced to raise her three young sons largely by herself.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Trudeau   (804 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trudeau had been sympathetic to Marxist ideas in the 1940s, and in the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a supporter of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party.
Trudeau was persuaded to run for the Liberal leadership, and ran an energetic campaign that mobilized and inspired many youths who had been influenced by the 1960s counterculture, and who saw Trudeau as a symbol of generational change.
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held, Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of Non-Confidence.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pierre_Trudeau   (3344 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Margaret Trudeau
Margaret Sinclair Trudeau (born September 10, 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) was the wife of Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada.
Sinclair did not recognize him and she in fact thought little of their encounter but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree "flower-child" and would begin to pursue her.
Margaret resented Trudeau's constant work-related absences, and was forced to raise the three young children largely by herself.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/m/ma/margaret_trudeau.html   (687 words)

  
 Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the son of a successful French Canadian businessman and a mother of Scottish ancestry.
Trudeau was later appointed a parliamentary secretary to PM Lester PEARSON, and was named minister of justice in 1967.
Trudeau was persuaded by the Liberal caucus to remain as leader, and on 8 February 1980 - less than 3 months after his retirement - he was returned once again as prime minister with a parliamentary majority, thus accomplishing a remarkable resurrection.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0008141   (1506 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Search View - MSN Encarta
Trudeau was born Joseph Philippe Pierre Ives Elliott Trudeau in Montréal, Québec, in 1919.
Trudeau was also a leader in the formation of the Rassemblement, a group devoted to fighting Duplessis by arousing public opinion against him.
Trudeau remained outside the Liberal Party through the early 1960s, even though he was closer in views to that party than to any of the other Canadian parties.
ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761554642__1/Pierre_Trudeau.html   (1945 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - MSN Encarta
Trudeau became prime minister on April 20, 1968, succeeding Lester B. Pearson, who had resigned as leader of the Liberal Party and as prime minister earlier that month.
He was criticized for many of his policies, especially his promotion of bilingualism and his war of wages and price controls to fight inflation; however he again won a large majority in the election of 1974.
During the 1950s Trudeau practiced law in Québec, where he was active in labor and civil liberties cases.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761554642   (919 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau reveals secret war with bipolar depression   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Margaret Trudeau said she was forced to cope with these mood swings in secret.
Margaret Trudeau, who made Friday's announcement to spearhead a fundraising campaign for the Royal Ottawa Hospital's $120-million expansion, did not speak about her past actions, but said her illness created problems in her marriages to Pierre Trudeau and her second husband, Ottawa realtor Fried Kemper.
When Pierre Trudeau died two years after the couple's youngest son, Michel, was killed in an avalanche in British Columbia, Margaret Trudeau was forced to come to grips with her depression.
www.canada.com /theprovince/news/story.html?id=89fdb8a8-01b1-4249-94a3-ffa600eef92b&k=34273   (559 words)

  
 Trudeau
Trudeau, who was elected with the expectation that he could solve the Quebec problem, continued to have problems in La Belle Province.
But Margaret was more a thorn in her husband's side, with an embarrassing stint in a mental hospital and a road trip with the Rolling Stones.
Trudeau told demonstrators in Quebec to "mange la merdre." He admitted to mouthing an obscenity in the House of Commons, which was loosely translated for the Canadian public as "fuddle duddle." He gave the finger to a demonstrator in Western Canada.
popups.ctv.ca /content/publish/popups/trudeau/content_pages/articles/trudeau_life.htm   (1533 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau was the least known of the group nicknamed "the three wise men".
Trudeau was successfully elected to the House of Commons in 1965, Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Pearson in 1966 and Minister of Justice in 1967.
Trudeau and Margaret separated in 1977 and later divorced in 1984.
www.hyperhistory.net /apwh/bios/b4trudeau.htm   (1114 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pierre Philippe Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 - September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth prime minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979 and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Pierre Trudeau was a flamboyant, charismatic, controversial intellectual.
Trudeau's policies were considered to be biased toward Ontario and Quebec, and left out Alberta and British Columbia.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pierre_Elliott_Trudeau   (1218 words)

  
 Trudeau's procession arrives in Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trudeau died Thursday at age 80, and the country has since been wrapped up in remembering his political legacy and flamboyant lifestyle.
Margaret Trudeau came to view the flame shortly after Trudeau’s coffin was taken away.
Trudeau was prime minister from 1968 to 1984, with a brief break in 1979 after an election loss.
www.pressrepublican.com /Archive/2000/10_2000/100320001.htm   (392 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Pierre Trudeau, 1919 - 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trudeau recognized Communist China long before the new nation was acknowledged by the U.S., maintained peaceful relations with Cuba, and discouraged war by means as diverse as welcoming "Draft Dodgers" to lobbying for global nuclear disarmament.
The couple had 3 sons, but the union was nearly the end of Trudeau's political career: Margaret Trudeau reveled in her position as the wife of the "Pop Prime Minister" as well as the freedoms of the 70s era and indulged rather than restrained her youthful bohemian impulses.
Trudeau avoided the spotlight after he retired from politics, and was often seen walking to his law office or with his sons.
obits.com /trudeau.html   (1350 words)

  
 CNN.com - Canadians and world leaders mourn Trudeau - September 29, 2000
The stream of well-wishers Thursday night outside Trudeau's home included people who loved his politics and people personally touched by a chance encounter or a brief stint working for him years earlier: A secretary who managed his correspondence in the late 1960s said he was the best boss she ever had.
Trudeau was prime minister from 1968 to 1984, with a brief break in 1979.
Trudeau was born Oct. 19, 1919, to a wealthy family in Montreal.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/29/canada.obit.trudeau.ap/index.html   (967 words)

  
 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau arrived back in Canada a changed man. Armed with the sharp intellect he had honed at school and the cosmopolitan views he'd acquired while travelling abroad, he was now drawn to politics.
Trudeau was a harsh critic of the ultra-conservative Union Nationale regime headed by Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis, and when he helped to found the progressive intellectual journal Cité Libre, he could air his grievances and anti-nationalist sentiments in print.
In 1969, Trudeau told Canadians he believed in "two official languages and a pluralist society." To illustrate his point, he created the Official Languages Act, which served the dual purpose of giving civil servants the choice to speak in English or French at work and protecting Francophones' rights to speak French anywhere in Canada.
www.cbc.ca /greatest/top_ten/nominee/trudeau-pierre.html   (1520 words)

  
 Son Remembers Trudeau - CBS News
Trudeau's daughter, Sarah, whom he fathered at the age of 71, made a rare appearance with her mother, constitutional lawyer Deborah Coyne.
Trudeau, who suffered from Parkinson's disease and died of prostate cancer last Thursday at age 80, was to be buried privately after the state funeral presided over by Montreal's Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte.
Trudeau swept to power in 1968, the height of the so-called Swinging Sixties, on a wave of support nicknamed "Trudeaumania." His charisma was reminiscent of another young, dashing politician who had captivated the United States when he became president eight years earlier in 1960 — John F. Kennedy.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/09/28/world/main237152.shtml   (1040 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Trudeau, charismatic former Canadian prime minister, dies at 80 - September 28, 2000
Trudeau was in office and I was president in 1977, we celebrated the signing of the Panama Canal treaties, and in recent years, we worked together on hemispheric issues at The Carter Center," Carter said in a statement released in Atlanta, Georgia.
In typical Trudeau style, he described himself as "surprised and quite pleased" at learning of the honor, but refused to be swayed from his personal desire for privacy in his post-political life.
Trudeau and his ex-wife were reunited briefly in November 1998 to mourn their 23-year-old son, Michel, who was killed by an avalanche while hiking in British Columbia.
archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/28/trudeau.obit.03/index.html   (1123 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Trudeau's had three children Justin, was born in 1971, Alexandre was born in 1973, and Michel was born in 1975.
Wherever Trudeau appeared to give a speech it was like a rock concert, young Liberals screamed themselves hoarse and the crowds swarmed around their hero.
Trudeau talked to the crowds about building a just society in which all Canadians were respected and shared in the country's prosperity.
www.asag.k12.nf.ca /Trudeau/sociallife/sociallife.htm   (665 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Pierre Trudeau – Catholic 'bimbo'
Trudeau may be said to fulfill the same role in 20th century Canadian politics that John F. Kennedy fills in 20th century American politics.
Trudeau, who took office in 1968, came with it and was cherished and recurrently elected by it.
Trudeau courted it, praised it, flirted with Cuba's Castro and consistently twitted the Americans who were protecting his country from it.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46252   (766 words)

  
 Trudeau
Trudeau was a shrimp as a child so he joined a fitness club in his preteens.
In 1999, Trudeau’s son Michel died in an avalanche in B.C. After that Trudeau was never the same.
Trudeau was an advisor of the Privy Council.
www.brandonsd.mb.ca /lanes/LeSeur/trudeau.htm   (347 words)

  
 Book review: The Hidden Pierre Elliott Trudeau
As Prime Minister (1968-1979; 1980-1984) he married a wealthy young socialite, Margaret Sinclair (she was 22, he 51) in a secret Catholic Church wedding in March 1971.
Trudeau and his confessor are qualified to comment on; and the one of the two cannot speak for himself because it was his own funeral that is being discussed!
As for Trudeau’s views on abortion (legalization in 1969; refusal to place a clause protecting life in the 1981 Charter), they are fully documented, including his remark, 25 years after the event, of being proud having passed the legislation.
catholicinsight.com /online/church/biographies/printer_626.shtml   (1895 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Charles Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trudeau's next major change was the Official Languages Act that guaranteed the right to speak French or English when dealing with the government or the courts.
In 1974, Trudeau returned to Parliament with a majority, only to be hit with a national economic inflation crisis.
Trudeau's funeral in Montreal, after lying in state in Ottawa and a funeral train back to Montreal, briefly rekindled an outpouring of mixed reactions - affection by many, especially in English-speaking Canada, and indifference by some Quebecers who regarded his support for a united Canada as treason.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Trudeau_Charles_212194202.htm   (1943 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau - Uncyclopedia
Trudeau with two of his then cabinet-ministers, John Turner and Iona Campagnolo, in 1969.
A longtime most-eligible bachelor, in 1971 Trudeau married Vancouver socialite Margaret Sinclair, a woman who, at 22, was less than half Trudeau's age.
In 1977 during a visit by Queen Elizabeth, Trudeau broke into his most famous dance sequence, in which the Queen joined him in an elaborate and risque series of agile dance moves.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Trudeau   (277 words)

  
 Anecdote - Margaret Trudeau [born Sinclair] - Pierre Trudeau   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Anecdote - Margaret Trudeau [born Sinclair] - Pierre Trudeau
One day in the early 1980s, an opinionated Toronto taxi driver harshly criticized Canadian Prime minister Pierre Trudeau, impugning his sexual preferences and suggesting that his late marriage (to Margaret Trudeau) had been a sham.
The driver was soon surprised to learn the identity of his passenger: it was, of course, Margaret Trudeau.
www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=15487   (173 words)

  
 CNN.com - World - Flamboyant former Canadian leader Pierre Trudeau dies - September 28, 2000
So strong was Trudeau's personality and influence that he was chosen Canada's newsmaker of the century in a Canadian Press-Broadcast News poll of editors and broadcasters in December 1999.
In the early 1980s, Trudeau was a high-profile player on the world political stage, often critical of the policies of Canada's large and powerful southern neighbor.
The youngest son, Michel, died in an avalanche in 1998 at age 23, and Trudeau's grief was considered a factor in his hospitalization for pneumonia during the new millennium celebrations.
edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/americas/09/28/trudeau.obit.02   (587 words)

  
 BBC News | OBITUARIES | Pierre Trudeau: Canada's charismatic prime minister
Pierre Trudeau was born in Montreal, the son of a rich French-Canadian lawyer.
In 1970 Mr Trudeau postponed a visit to the Soviet Union because of a domestic crisis caused by the kidnapping of a British diplomat, James Cross and the Labour Minister for Quebec, Pierre Laporte.
Mr Trudeau's refusal to meet the kidnappers' demands resulted in M Laporte's murder, but James Cross was eventually released after his kidnappers had been allowed to leave Canada.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/916644.stm   (713 words)

  
 Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Pierre Elliot Trudeau Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a politician, a lawyer, a writer and one of Canada’s greatest prime ministers whom had the idea of Canada’s independence and acted on it.
Trudeau at the age of 51 (while he was PM) married a very young 22-year-old named Margaret Sinclair, but in 1977 they separated and divorced in 1984.
Trudeau had first attended the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Montreal where he graduated and received a baccalaureate degree with honors.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMToyOjE&request=4563   (252 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Trudeau Albums: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Trudeau Albums blends original commentary from six eminent writers with hundreds of striking colour and fl and white images to create a mesmerizing visual biography of Canada's most popular prime minister.
Offering timely insights into our nation's enduring fascination with all things Trudeau, Trudeau Albums is an in-depth pictorial study of this great leader's style, his charisma, his intellect, his fearlessness and his ruthlessness.
I particularly enjoyed the photos taken during Trudeau's travels, especially in Cuba and in China, two countries which I have extensively traveled in, and in the case of China, lived in for two years.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0670892939   (523 words)

  
 Pierre Elliot Trudeau
Pierre Elliott Trudeau was born on October 18, 1919 to an upper class Quebecois family.
During the prime of his life, Trudeau was seen as a man of flavor.
Trudeau made the arena of politics fashionable for the new Sixties generation.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxNjoyOjE&request=55397   (269 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.